While gearing up for the inauguration of Joe Biden, whose vice president will be a Black woman and who has already promised to expand the number of refugees next year by a factor of 10, religious activists on the left are wrestling with how to keep their momentum.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: New book on Amoris Laetitia; Kavanaugh and Roe v. Wade; Labor Day resources; Sipe's speculations; redistricting fights.
Catholic leaders decried the Senate's rejection of compromise legislation to protect Dreamers, and the role that the Trump administration played in discouraging consensus.