"Even if the Democrats hit a home run on economics, they also need to step back from the cultural extremism they have embraced in recent years," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.
In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo shares several practical ideas for ordinary Catholics concerned about the future of humanity in light of rapid changes related to artificial intelligence.
"You have made us think about all sorts of things, including, but not in any kind of preaching way, how faith can fit into people's lives because it seemed to seamlessly connect in yours," writes NCR's Carol Zimmermann.
NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters has some ideas for the Democrats to create a winning formula not just for the midterms but for a long-term governing majority.
"These instances," writes NCR's Carol Zimmermann, offer "a view of what so many people are also looking for — a small connection with a church leader, a sign that he is a real person who happens to be in a powerful role."
"The future of higher education, and perhaps of democracy, may depend upon the willingness of liberal leaders and intellectuals to engage with the Catholic intellectual tradition, and vice versa," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.
The Christian tradition is inherently a storytelling religion. And from the earliest days of the experimental Franciscan way of life, people told striking stories about what was unfolding in the town of Assisi.
There's been no conspiracy to omit the mention of Jesus Christ, but there has been a hesitancy to place him at the center of our events. Pope Leo XIV aims to correct this state of affairs, writes Michael Sean Winters.
