The recent electoral defeat of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, seen by many as a repudiation of his illiberal politics, offers a caution not only to those who had confidently predicted the failure of liberalism but also to those who celebrate its staying power.
US Politics
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King Charles invokes faith, ‘shared values’ as he calls for peace in address to Congress
King Charles III appealed to the Christian faith and invoked “shared values” between the United Kingdom and the United States as he called for peace around the globe during an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress April 28.
Posted inFaith and Reason
Cardinal McElroy: Why the Catholic Church can and should judge the morality of the Iran war
The exclusion of the church from any substantive role in evaluating the moral legitimacy of decisions to go to war is a pathway to amoral decisions on war, not moral ones.
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Preaching the Risen Christ: Mass in migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border
Flavio Bravo, S.J., who celebrates Mass in migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico, joins “Preach” host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., to speak about preaching resurrection and hope from within places filled with suffering.
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US bishops’ head calls for prayer after gunman attacks White House press dinner attended by Trump
“We are grateful the lives of the President, those who protect him, and everyone in attendance last night were spared from serious harm,” Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement April 26.
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Pope Leo pledges support to efforts against the death penalty during surprise video appearance in Chicago
“The Catholic Church,” Pope Leo said, “has consistently taught that each human life, from the moment of conception until natural death, is sacred and deserves to be protected.”
Posted inShort Take
Trump education cuts will make it more difficult for low-income students to afford college
Catholic institutions cannot stand by while government policies systematically dismantle pathways to opportunity for the students we are called to serve.
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Analysis: Will President Trump’s recent attacks on Pope Leo cost him Catholic voters?
“The question is: Why would you attack any religious leader—especially one as influential and as popular as Pope Leo? It makes no political sense to do so.”
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Appeals court upholds Texas law on Ten Commandments in public schools
A federal appeals court on April 21 narrowly upheld a Texas law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
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Trump, Pope Leo, William F. Buckley and John XXIII: An overview of Popes and Politics in America
A literary spat between ‘America’ and William F. Buckley 65 years ago is proving to have been eerily proleptic in light of Mr. Trump’s war of words against the pope and the latter’s assertion of church teaching on just war.