Michael Sean Winters: No one wants a Supreme Court with its finger to the wind, but the current conservative majority seems to enjoy thumbing its nose at the American people.
The July 4 mass shooting brought devastation to another community in the U.S., and such a tragic situation "has become shockingly commonplace in our country," said the chairmen of three bishops' conference committees.
The same day 19 students and two teachers were murdered in a shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, gun violence also struck Rio de Janeiro: 23 people were shot dead during a police raid in a northern slum of the city.
Michael Sean Winters: Voters are getting ready to punish the Democrats for all the wrong reasons, but both parties could use a big dose of Catholic social teaching.
Michael Sean Winters: The U.S. bishops need to argue that Americans idolize their guns and that offends God, and the church's pro-life witness needs to engage gun control with the ferocity it has engaged abortion.
Those who identify as Christians, especially those of us who are white Christians, have a responsibility rooted in the core of our faith tradition to diagnose and respond to the viruses of racism and gun violence.
