Signs of the Times: President Donald Trump's supporters are trying to paint Kamala Harris as being anti-Catholic, a fantastical accusation considering that her running mate, Joe Biden, is a Catholic.
We say: The Catholic Church in the U.S. is for sale. Money provides individuals and groups entrée to the highest levels of church leadership and affords others an inordinately large say in church affairs.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services banned the National Institutes of Health from using human fetal stem cells from electively aborted babies for government funded research June 5.
In an April 12 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, the CEO of the Knights of Columbus said that "Christian towns in Iraq increasingly look neither Christian nor Iraqi — but Iranian."
Distinctly Catholic: Two stories last week justified my caution about an increased role for the laity as a means to heal the church. The stories showed the ugly power of money that lay leadership entails.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: The state of evangelical churches; Carl Anderson urges Knights to support Kavanaugh; Bishop Finn gets a pass in Missouri.
Distinctly Catholic: The partisan divisions in our culture, which are deeper than mere partisanship and extend to geography, socio-economic status and education levels, must not be allowed to overtake the life of the church.
