Season Three of Hulu's "Ramy" has a knack for delving into divisive cultural issues with nuance and subtlety. It approaches hot-button issues with the intention to make everyone think, rather than pandering to one side.
Commentary: In a time when the Catholic Church in the U.S. is flirting with Communion bans and populist nationalism, it's good to consider anew why Thomas More, patron saint of politicians, is not a culture war hero.
Essay: With one more wager, the chance to win it all, the bishops placed all they had on Trump, on this unstable gadfly whose propensity to smash democratic norms just might yield the Supreme Court they desired.
Distinctly Catholic: The fall assembly raises the question again: Will the U.S. bishops continue to resist the direction Pope Francis is trying to steer the church or will they engage his evangelical vision?
Distinctly Catholic: At their 2020 fall meeting, the U.S. bishops should abandon the culture-warrior approach, be guided by concern for the common good, and build communion by focusing on poverty and racism.
Commentary: It is not enough for a woman to claim a seat at the table. She needs to work, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, for other women to be given places as well. And Barrett has not done this.
The right-leaning U.S. bishops' conference reflects two papacies in which most appointments included an orthodoxy litmus test. That isn't undone in just six years of a more moderate papacy like that of Francis.
Distinctly Catholic: It remains to be seen if Democrats will learn the lessons to be drawn from this congressional race. But Republicans are right to be worried.
