• Obama speech touches on several topics important to faith leaders

  

  Jan 30, 2014 1:31

  (CNS) In his fifth State of the Union address Jan. 28, President Barack Obama stressed many themes that are on the advocacy...

   

• Popular voice in the Capitol? It’s the Pope’s

  

  Jan 8, 2014 8:30

  (NYT) Shortly before leaving the Capitol for the holiday recess, Senate Democrats gathered behind closed doors to lay out...

   

• What Pope Francis can teach the GOP

  

  Jan 8, 2014 8:26

  (The Daily Beast) With his softer message on gay and divorced families, the pope has figured out what the Republicans haven’t...

   

• Who is more fallible on economics: Paul Ryan or Pope Francis?

  

  Dec 27, 2013 1:49

  (The Wire) “The guy is from Argentina, they haven’t had real capitalism in Argentina,” Rep. Paul Ryan said...

   

• Obama highlights common ground with Pope Francis

  

  Dec 27, 2013 1:43

  (LA Times) When a White House speechwriter turned in a draft of a major speech on economic policy this month, President Obama...

   

• What would Pope Francis say to Washington? Our view

  

  Dec 24, 2013 13:47

  (USA Today) Since his election in March, Pope Francis has made quite the splash, rejecting many of the more opulent trappings...

   

• US plan gives Jerusalem holy sites to Vatican

  

  Dec 16, 2013 8:08

  (WND) Secretary of State John Kerry quietly presented a U.S. plan for eastern Jerusalem that calls for an international administrative...

   

• Majority of Catholics – but not the bishops – support passing ENDA

  

  Nov 8, 2013 5:06

  (NCR Online) The Senate passed ENDA by a vote of 64-32. Though the vote suggests strong bipartisan support, ENDA is expected...

   

• The economic and moral dimensions in debt-ceiling debate

  

  Oct 14, 2013 8:50

  (CNS) No matter how one tries to parse it, every economic decision has a moral dimension to it. Do you shop at Store A, with...

   

• Jessica Winter: Move over, Antonin Scalia. Stephen Colbert is now America’s Catholic.

  

  Sep 22, 2013 11:13

  (Slate) Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has always reminded me of the robed men of the Catholic Church in which I grew...