No writer did more to keep alive an awareness of the indignities working-class people experience than journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.
Distinctly Catholic: Michael Warsaw wants Catholics to vote for Donald Trump's "long-term vision" for the country, without acknowledging COVID-19 deaths, racism, cruelty, libertarianism and irreparable harm to the planet.
Distinctly Catholic: The fables of rugged individualism that condition so much of the culture's core beliefs, combined with the dominance of neoliberal economic ideas and globalization have brought us to where we are.
Distinctly Catholic: It will take more than COVID-19 to kill the ideologies of our day that distort our political landscape. But let's try slaying some of the ideological stupidities the crisis has brought into focus.
Commentary: Our culture's extreme individualism, materialism and libertarian contempt for the common good have come with a cost, and the current crisis should renew commitment to a different political and civic vision.
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.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Napa Institute invites the who's who of Francis critics; the left's identity politics fixation; evangelicals and Trump.
The Herald is the newest player in a web of connections between conservative Catholic media and wealthy donors, right-wing activists, high-ranking clergy and libertarian political players.
Distinctly Catholic: U.S. Catholic life in 2018 was marked by two major stories, one a reprise and the other just beginning, and one story that did not happen, the ecclesial dog that did not bark.
