Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's legal efforts to shut down a Catholic migrant shelter network in El Paso, Texas, is the latest example of the state trying to criminalize migrants and migration, said Bishop Mark Seitz.
As Pax Christi USA celebrates 50 years, the signs of the times that were current in 1972 remain, even if circumstances and particulars have changed. The Gospel of Jesus continues to call us all to conversion.
We say: President Biden recently signed the first piece of gun control legislation in nearly 30 years. We understand the legislative process, and we know that you can't get everything in Washington. Still, we want more.
Michael Sean Winters: "Houston, we have a problem." Tom Hanks' memorable line in the movie "Apollo 13" seems like an appropriate starting point to consider the ecclesiastical situation in the great state of Texas.
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.
Fr. Daniel Horan: To paraphrase one of Jesus' teachings, you cannot serve both God and guns. To those trying to square the circle of their demonstrated love of guns and alleged love of God, I ask: What is your true religion?
Michael Sean Winters: We need to find different places for books and coffee; Tish Harrison Warren writes about the mixed feelings of many in the pro-life and whole-life movement; win the independents to win.
