Fighting a new culture war battle over the placement of the Ten Commandments on the walls of schools is a fool's errand, says NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
What is a mistake, for either party, but especially for Democrats, is to view demographic issues as a zero-sum game. For the Dems, does outreach to religious voters harm the party's prospects with nonreligious voters?
What will it take for the U.S. bishops' conference to incorporate Francis' vision for a more synodal church, one capable of deepening an ecclesial self-understanding by attending to the most vulnerable in our midst?
Several bishops told NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters that in the executive session where the Catholic Campaign for Human Development was discussed, the support for the program was overwhelming.
At the Catholic Health Association meeting, San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy sketched four fundamental questions about the synodal process for Catholic health care to ponder.
At a time when so many Americans continue to struggle with poverty, and when the political class largely neglects their needs, the bishops need to stand foursquare behind the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
It is difficult to conceive of the ordeal they faced 80 years ago and of the courage that was required, but they faced it, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
The American people know, or should know, that the jury system is the best device engineered by the human mind to protect the liberties of all against the power of the few.