The music chosen to celebrate President Biden’s inauguration stands in stark contrast to one the president-elect participated in just 12 years prior.
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America arrives at this inauguration with perhaps a quarter of its population believing that its elections are corrupt and its criminal justice system is not fair.
Read MoreThe president-elect is preparing for his inaugural address amidst political turmoil and social unrest. What should he say?
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It can then be asked whether the impeachment meets the test of a good symbol. It may succeed in one way but, in the current hyper-partisan environment, fail in another.
Father Neuhaus, who died in 2009, had great faith in the American people, but he would have been worried these last years, and last Wednesday.
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To a certain degree, public health directives, aimed broadly as they are, are always at least partially false.
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Today religious liberty questions arise in the context of pandemic protocols. Are those who protest them guilty of Becket-like intransigent extremism, or are they Becket-like in a heroic defence of inalienable rights?
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The poison spilled on Wednesday in Washington will leach out across the land.
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The Holy Father’s style was best exemplified in 2020 by eight key occasions.
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Americans’ weakened trust in elections is attributed in part to the electoral institution itself and to high-profile cases of alleged stolen elections.
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What that price actually was in 2020 will be a key matter for investigation in 2021.
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Next Spring, the Church will be simultaneously observing four specially designated years: Our Lady of Loreto, St. Joseph, Laudato Si and Amoris Laetitia.
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He faces a dilemma no president has had to confront in 60 years: how to choose an attorney general whose department will decide on whether to prosecute his family?
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Rabbi Sacks was a master at making people sit up and take notice of things which they had long seen, but did not understand.
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While public controversy focused on whether the government considered worship an ‘essential activity,’ the far more important question is whether the Catholic faithful consider Sunday Mass as ‘essential activity.’
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Are there grounds for hope in this life, in the present, or are our circumstances set like the past is already fixed? Are we condemned to an unchanging reality like the souls Dante encounters in hell?
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With increasing parts of the country in lockdown, the official advice for Christmas gatherings is not to gather. It makes for a sobering Christmas this year.
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It matters if the penalty is just or unjust, although it could be argued that today capital punishment is ‘inadmissible’ because the modern state is no longer competent to administer it.
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