This link between adoration and service has no corollary in the marketplace. Indeed, both adoration and service are impediments to consumerism, and not just impediments but threats.
Media bias didn't win in Michigan, Joe Biden did, and he won big. The media focus on the small vote for "uncommitted" was disproportionate and difficult to explain.
Many conflicts in American life run along the fault lines between religion and politics, which is quite a different thing, but these two cases explicitly entail church-state issues.
"Wishing partisanship away is not going to work," writes columnist Thomas Reese. "Short of a miracle or a national catastrophe, partisanship is here to stay."
Inspired by Pope Francis' frequent exhortation to the faithful to "return to the basics" of our faith, Fr. Dan Horan decided to begin this Lent with a return to the fundamentals — via an ecumenical approach.
At a time when our politics is so polarized, the need to present Catholic social teaching as pre-political has never been greater, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
The authors analyze how the Democrats' increasingly radical approach to social and cultural issues further alienates the very working-class voters they need to win elections.