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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Robert David Sullivan
Abortion polls tell part of the story.
A demonstrator holds a crucifix during a protest against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua May 15, 2018. (CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dany Díaz Mejía
Human rights in Nicaragua have deteriorated since a political crisis in 2018 pitted the increasingly authoritarian Ortega government against democracy and political reform advocates.
An American flag waves in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building, Monday, June 27, 2022, in Washington.
Politics & SocietyNews
Jessica Gresko—Associated Press
The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a football coach from Washington State who sought to kneel and pray on the field after games.
A school bus in front of a building; the building has a yellow banner on it that says “imagine a future free of gun violence.”
Politics & SocietyFaith in Focus
Britt Luby
One month after Uvalde, we are growing numb to gun violence. Even so, we must resolve to comfort the mourners, to beat guns into plowshares, and to say “never again” and mean it.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
What is most needed in the public debate on abortion is an honest moral reckoning with the two goods that are in tension when a woman faces a pregnancy she feels she cannot continue.
Pro-life demonstrators in Washington celebrate outside the Supreme Court June 24, 2022, as the court overruled the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision. (CNS photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Catholic leaders welcomed the news as a culmination of decades of pro-life activism while also calling for the creation of a stronger social safety net to assist women facing crisis pregnancies.