One Saturday a month, we scour a tiny piece of the New Mexico desert bordering El Paso to the east and Mexico farther to the south. In the last three searches alone, we have discovered eight sites of skeletal remains.
It is essential to vote for the common good, writes Daniel P. Horan. And when the ballots are counted and the winner declared, we must continue to work for the common good for failure to do so is to shirk our earthly responsibilities.
LA Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela did not wear his faith on his sleeve. But his reverence for La Virgen de Guadalupe and El Santo Niño highlights the remarkable life of a Mexican, Catholic athlete.
For many Mexican immigrants, the Virgin of Guadalupe is a symbol of collective struggle and resilience. Her image should not be wielded as a crass political tool, but honored for its cultural and spiritual roots.
Faithful Catholics must vote for the ticket most likely to promote a dignified quality of life for all and the works of social justice throughout our society. In such a broadened view, this Catholic, at least, must vote for the Harris-Walz ticket.
On Oct. 23, Maxwell Kuzma met Pope Francis as part of a group of transgender Catholic men gathered through Outreach. Being able to meet Pope Francis with no mask or false persona was a grace, he says.
On Thursday, JD Vance published a swing-state op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette arguing that Harris has a long "record of bigotry" towards Catholics. Yet it was just this week that one of Trump’s own operatives falsely maligned a group of progressive nuns for voter fraud. Vance and Trump have also spent much of the past month vilifying and threatening Ohio’s Haitians, one of the most Catholic demographics in Black America.
Our desire to direct this synod toward concrete results or scoff when no concrete results emerge shuts the windows and doors of the house so the Spirit cannot rush in, writes Steven P. Millies.
