The Holy See is weighing how to respond to the Trump administration’s invitation to join the Board of Peace, an initiative originally aimed at rebuilding Gaza that President Donald Trump now hopes to expand into a broader peacemaking coalition.
Stephen Miller is Plato’s original playground bully
Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s muse and adviser, told Jake Tapper of CNN, “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the…
A century before Trump targeted Somalis, Jews faced the politics of blame
As President Donald Trump ramped up his rhetoric against Somali immigrants in Minnesota and ordered a surge in immigration enforcement because Somalis took part in a social-service fraud scheme, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pushed back.
Violence is not the greatest force in the ‘real world.’ People of faith know this.
Archbishop Óscar Romero once said, “Let us not grow tired of preaching love, for this is the force that will overcome the world.”
Clean house in Congress
Every Republican — and some Democrats — in Congress should be voted out of office as soon as possible for dereliction of duty. The United States of America would not be in the crisis we now face — at least…
The Ugly Religious History Behind Trump’s Coup in Venezuela
Last week, in an attempt to justify his military attack on the sovereign nation of Venezuela and the ensuing arrest of President Nicolás Maduro, Trump stated, “The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we’ve superseded it by a lot, by…
More Americans turning angry eyes on ICE
Despite what President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are saying, most Americans do not believe an ICE agent’s killing of a Minneapolis mom was justified. In fact, that incident has pushed even more people into the camp of…
Letter to the Editor: Ten Commandments hypocrisy
Dear Editor: Over the course of the previous year, Christian nationalists in Texas pushed through Senate Bill 10, which requires public school classrooms in the state to display the Ten Commandments. The rationale behind this legislation is the claim that…
Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms
Since his election in May as the first American pope, Leo XIV has become a political and temperamental counterweight to an incendiary American president.
American Christians morally and spiritually fractured
I rarely read an op-ed by John Pavlovitz without exclaiming, “I wish I had written that!” That was especially true when I saw his Dec. 5 piece on “America’s Divide Isn’t About Politics Anymore.” I may not be able to…
Trump’s lies are killing us
During the opening days of his first term, President Donald Trump achieved something remarkable. According to The New York Times, “He said something untrue, in public, every day for the first 40 days of his presidency.” His spokesperson, Kellyanne Conway, coined…
What do women really want? To move
According to a new Gallup poll, one in five Americans wish they could leave the U.S. and permanently relocate to another country. The demographic driving this record-high desire to emigrate are women and teens ages 15 to 44, 40% of…