Opinion

Why I don't vote

Oct 22, 2020

It's Happening: I've never voted in any election, going back to when Kennedy and Nixon were offering their services to the country. Why? Because I'm a pacifist — and on my better days, a pacifist-anarchist.

Blog | The Francis Chronicles

Francis, the comic strip

by Pat Marrin

Oct 22, 2020

Francis, the comic strip: The great Rabbi Hillel once said he could recite the entire law standing on one foot. Can Brother Leo do the same?

People are seen at an early voting site in Fairfax, Virginia, Sept. 18. (CNS/Reuters/Al Drago)

Blog | NCR Connections

Asking for a friend: Can a Catholic vote for Biden?

by Heidi Schlumpf, Bill Mitchell

Oct 22, 2020

NCR Connections: As a friendly reminder — and for suggested sharing — we offer this roundup of recent helpful articles and columns that counter the narrative that to be Catholic means you must vote Republican and for Donald Trump.

Column | Distinctly Catholic

Links for 10/22/20

by Michael Sean Winters

Oct 22, 2020

Twice-weekly roundup of political news and commentary: Dune buggy rally for the president; seamless garment; district-level polls; domestic workers and COVID-19; check the meritocracy of the U.S.; oh, Canada

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Why I don't vote

Francis, the comic strip

Asking for a friend: Can a Catholic vote for Biden?

Links for 10/22/20

Debate prediction: a flailing Trump

How this pro-life former congressman is voting this election

Editorial: Barrett's moral relativism is cause for rejection from the bench

The Francis Effect podcast: Election update, Michigan militias and 'Fratelli Tutti'

Catholic encounters with Muslims frame 'Fratelli tutti'

Links for 10/20/20

Francis, the comic strip

Catholics cannot forget workers' rights when voting

Pope needs transparency, zero tolerance to end Vatican's financial corruption

Health care is not equal — it's a racial justice issue

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: No one answer

Sarah Posner's 'Unholy' implicates Catholics as well as evangelicals

I need to forgive Donald Trump

Your thoughts on invalid formula for baptisms

Staring down climate despair through kinship

Shea explains how politics, culture distort our understanding of Catholicism

What would Jesus wear to celebrate Mass at the end of the world?

Francis, the comic strip

Links for 10/15/20

Amy Coney Barrett is not a feminist icon — she is not a feminist at all

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