Presidential politics Archives

For candidates and voters, faith plays part in 2020 presidential election
- Jun 1, 2019
“Politics for some is the new religion,” said John Carr, director of Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, which sponsored the May 22 discussion 530 days prior to the presidential election.

By Carol Zimmermann
Kansas priest gives invocation at groundbreaking for Eisenhower Memorial
- Nov 5, 2017
Although President Dwight D. Eisenhower was not a Catholic himself, a priest gave the invocation at the groundbreaking of his national memorial on the National Mall. A Catholic priest and military veteran, Father Leo Blasi of Hays, Kansas, also lived in Eisenhower’s hometown of Abilene, Kansas which many say would have satisfied the former president.

By Kurt Jensen
Historians assess the promise and paradox of JFK at his centenary
- Apr 30, 2017
Presidential historian, Patrick Maney, said Kennedy became the first “celebrity president,” being the son of a millionaire and being a World War II hero with his rescue of his Navy crewmen of the stricken PT 109, not to mention his quick ascendancy in Congress and his marriage to socialite Jacqueline Bouvier.

By Mark Pattison

Addressing voter anger key to November, Georgetown panel says

Sep 26, 2016

Underlying anger and deep-seated distrust of government — and the major party candidates — are at the root of one of the most tumultuous presidential campaigns in memory, one in which many Americans will either vote against rather than for someone, or just not vote at all.

Can Mother Teresa help Clinton on adoption v. abortion again?

Sep 10, 2016

Mother Teresa and Hillary Clinton forged an improbable partnership in the 1990s over a home for children in Washington, D.C., based on the idea that adoption is a better alternative than abortion, and perhaps the Church’s newest saint can push Clinton again on abortion in 2016.