Distinctly Catholic

Abortion: Discuss, don't debate

Jul 31, 2020

Distinctly Catholic: It seems that every time someone crosses the pro-life Catholic brigade, you get an over-the-top, profoundly hateful reaction; I suspect it doesn't help the pro-life cause one little bit. Now, a new report from the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame confirms that suspicion.

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by Michael Sean Winters

Jul 30, 2020

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Don't forget Puerto Rico in next stimulus bill; rebuild the labor movement; administration's failed response to coronavirus; dogs don't vote in elections

The GOP's stimulus bill is flaccid and immoral

by Michael Sean Winters

Jul 29, 2020

Distinctly Catholic: I hope Republicans will think about the consequences for public health if cities have to start laying off workers. Want to make a pandemic worse? Cut back on garbage collection, cut resources for hospitals, make it harder for schools to reopen safely.

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by Michael Sean Winters

Jul 28, 2020

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Supreme Court decides limit of parishioners during Mass; Biden's Catholic faith; Latino voters and abortion; a Democratic tsunami in November?

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Abortion: Discuss, don't debate

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The GOP's stimulus bill is flaccid and immoral

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Who still stands with Viganò?

Will GOP officeholders go down with the Trump ship?

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Unalienable rights are still unassailable despite Pompeo

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Bishop McElroy's hopeful vision for a church transformed

Cardinal Dolan, George Weigel and the fraudulence of the neocon project

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The Elizabeth Warren economic hymnal is in Biden's pew

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Time for Biden to build a big tent

The Supreme Court is right. That's no excuse for the church to be wrong.

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The moral stakes of the economic crisis

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Weigel's 'The Next Pope' has a crimped, Americanist vision of papacy

Remember on July 4: Greatness comes from solidarity, shared sacrifice

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Pro-life cause stymied, but not because of court decision

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