What are Democratic Party leaders' deeper habits of thought that need to change? The first deadly habit the left has to forswear is its tendency to heresy-hunt, which ends up alienating people whose votes you need.
The elections at this year's U.S. bishops' conference meeting constituted a rejection of some of the more arch-conservative candidates in favor of more centrist, or at least center-right, bishops.
What kind of leadership will we get? Whatever it is, we must always remember that in a democracy, we put the leaders there ourselves and so we must save it ourselves, as well.
Sometime this morning at the U.S. bishops' assembly, Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese of the Military Services will give his address as president of the conference. It is scary to think what he will say.
The first-ever conference dedicated to the life of Catholic Worker co-founder Peter Maurin centered on the question of how his program can inspire us to "blow the dynamite" of the Gospel.
"The problem now is that Donald Trump has claimed the populist mantle and I am not sure how the Democrats claim it back," says NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
Trump's win was the culmination of a variety of factors, but the most obvious cause was his ability to present himself as the anti-politician in a country that hates politicians. He is a genius at exploiting populism.
NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters is declaring victory in the presidential race for an unusual candidate, his St. Bernard, Damiana, in this parody column.
