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Trump campaign kicks off Catholic voter outreach project

Apr 3, 2020

President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is ramping up its courtship of Catholic voters ahead of a likely November matchup against a devout Catholic Democrat, former Vice President Joe Biden.

Column | Distinctly Catholic

History warns us: Crises like COVID-19 can give rise to great evil

by Michael Sean Winters

Apr 3, 2020

Distinctly Catholic: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." The spirit of this quote has been resurrected as our political leaders try and figure out how to respond to the COVID-19 crisis.

Blog | NCR Today

Your thoughts on Jamie Manson's columns, voting with a conscience, religious liberty and more

by NCR Staff

Apr 3, 2020

Your thoughts: February was forever ago, right? Below are a sampling of letters written by NCR readers in the month of February 2020.

A man in Laredo, Texas, stacks relief boxes at the South Texas Food Bank March 20 during the coronavirus outbreak. (CNS/Reuters/Veronica G. Cardenas)

Column | Distinctly Catholic

Pandemic crisis reveals impoverished understanding of solidarity

by Michael Sean Winters

Apr 1, 2020

Distinctly Catholic: It will take more than COVID-19 to kill the ideologies of our day that distort our political landscape. But let's try slaying some of the ideological stupidities the crisis has brought into focus.

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Trump campaign kicks off Catholic voter outreach project

History warns us: Crises like COVID-19 can give rise to great evil

Your thoughts on Jamie Manson's columns, voting with a conscience, religious liberty and more

Pandemic crisis reveals impoverished understanding of solidarity

Links for 3/31/20

Will Trump be the first president reelected during a full-blown recession?

Links for 3/27/20

'Give me liberty, or give me (grandma's) death!'

One small step for economic recovery, avoiding one giant leap toward Putinism

Catholic leaders praise Colorado's repeal of death penalty

The cult of Trump now threatens us all

Editorial: May the lesson be indelibly inscribed — we need one another

Links for 3/24/20

Time is now for Democrats, Joe Biden to shape this narrative

Who made us God?

Competent coronavirus management matters, and it's political

White House takes low-key approach to churches that ignore coronavirus advice

Links for 3/19/20

Rightwing conspiracies swirling around coronavirus cost lives

Links for 3/17/20

Trump calls on Americans to cease hoarding food, supplies

Catholics have been intertwined with US politics for decades

Biden needs support of young people, Latinos to unite the Democrats

Pew survey shows divide among religious believers over views about Trump

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