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May 3, 2018

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Trump's mock acceptance speech; Hawking's wrestling with metaphysical questions; McElroy talks poverty and peace; U.S. bishops announce Religious Freedom Week

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Christian democracy could help what ails American politics

by Michael Sean Winters

Apr 23, 2018

Distinctly Catholic: The natural home for religiously-based ideological disposition in the U.S. used to be the Democratic Party, but for the past three decades, the religious right has been the face of Christianity in American public life. Both parties seem unable to restore health to politics.

Book collects conference discussions on applying 'Amoris Laetitia' in US

by Joshua J. McElwee

Apr 20, 2018

The organizers of a 2017 conference of bishops and theologians to examine how Pope Francis' family life exhortation could be applied at the local level have put together a volume collecting the participants' discussions.

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Bishop McElroy: Politics should pursue common good, not special interests

by Michael Sean Winters

Apr 20, 2018

Distinctly Catholic: San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy's April 18 lecture at Loyola University Chicago opens the debate about how the church should engage politics. He is calling for an approach in which Catholics remember to put their faith first, as the ground of a virtue ethics.

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Christian democracy could help what ails American politics

Book collects conference discussions on applying 'Amoris Laetitia' in US

Bishop McElroy: Politics should pursue common good, not special interests

Catholic virtues necessary to address political polarization, bishop says

Bishop McElroy to address partisan polarization in lecture at Loyola in Chicago

7 takeaways from hosting 'Amoris Laetitia' theology seminars for 47 US bishops

47 bishops to take part in theology seminars on 'Amoris Laetitia'

2017 alters the landscape of the US church

Vatican's nuclear disarmament conference emphasizes shift toward logic of peace

Bishop McElroy decries extremism on religious freedom, calls for solidarity in American politics

US bishops, as a group, still resist Pope Francis' pastoral impulse

Bishop McElroy sees 'a cultural crisis in our body politic'

Pope condemns possession of nuclear weapons in shift from church's acceptance of deterrence

See, judge and act: direction for Catholics

Conference revisits 'Amoris Laetitia'

What I learned from organizing, participating in Boston's 'Amoris Laetitia' event

Conference on 'Amoris Laetitia' was dialogical, grounded in reality

Bishops deliberate whether one rule applies to all divorced people after 'Amoris Laetitia'

'Amoris Laetitia' controversy predates the document itself

Bishops, theologians gather to consider US implementation of 'Amoris Laetitia'

Cardinal Turkson, military, peace activists, academics to dialogue on nonviolence

Lay groups lament Paprocki's decree denying same-sex spouses Eucharist

Remembering Archbishop Quinn

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