The preamble to the U.S. Constitution is aspirational, but what if we acknowledged our "original sins," as South Africa's post-apartheid document does?
Family feelings are raw, and friendships across party lines are becoming rarer in the current political climate. Catholics share how they maintain their crossover connections.
Commentary: Polarization did not end with Biden's election. The structural factors driving it remain in place. But people committed to the common good can take concrete steps to help us move forward together.
Throughout the campaign, Biden was subject to criticism about his faith, with some church figures suggesting he is not a real Catholic. Yet some church observers are warning that such hostility could backfire.
Distinctly Catholic: Americans observing the current political mess in the U.K. will be familiar with the incalculable toll it takes on a democracy when the head of government is not trustworthy.
Commentary: The mutual estrangement and alienation between the institutional Catholic Church and academic theology, in the long run, will endanger theology more than the institution.
Distinctly Catholic: Democrats are right to insist that the full report be released to Congress. But they should not overreach, or act like little children who did not get their way.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Good ideas for public housing; what Watergate tells us to expect today; Hispanic Republicans; Netanyahu indicted.
Young Voices: Catholic ritual and liturgies counter our culture's death-denial. But what of a church that refuses to look upon itself and denies that it is in its own season of death?
