No writer did more to keep alive an awareness of the indignities working-class people experience than journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.
Soon after Joe Biden tapped Kamala Harris as his running mate, some conservatives began trying to portray her as anti-Catholic — a line of attack that President Donald Trump's campaign continues to amplify as Democrats court Roman Catholic voters.
Distinctly Catholic: Biden and his campaign team need to decide if they are simply aiming to get to 270 electoral votes, or if they're going for a big win — a mandate to really "heal the soul of the nation."
The Christian social justice magazine Sojourners unpublished an article about the church and white power advocates. The article angered some Catholics, while the decision to pull the online article upset others.
The former vice president, who could be on the cusp of becoming the second Catholic president of the U.S., is hands down the most comfortable Democratic politician of his generation talking about his faith.
"It's absolutely inappropriate for the president of the United States to be using a Catholic facility like the shrine for a photo op for his reelection," said Stephen Schneck, who was among some 2,000 demonstrators.
NCR Connections: U.S. Catholic magazine recently removed two essays critical of Cardinal Timothy Dolan and his fawning attention to President Trump. That editorial decision has wider implications.
At the beginning of Laudato Si' Week, 42 faith institutions committed to divest their finances from fossil fuels, and called for post-pandemic economic recovery to shift the world toward a low-carbon future.
Distinctly Catholic: There is more evidence that New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and at least some key staffers at the bishops' conference, knew that the call with President Donald Trump was partly a campaign rally.
