US politics

Catholics can offer calming voice in a time of fiery political debates
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Oct 5, 2019
Catholics — clergy, religious and laypeople in the pews — can utilize the values of their faith to overcome the increasing fiery rhetoric emerging because of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s actions, several Catholic observers said.
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For candidates and voters, faith plays part in 2020 presidential election
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- 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.
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New skepticism targets right to religious freedom, expert says
- Church in the US, Vatican
- Nov 19, 2018
Former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon has said the entire human rights movement has fallen victim to a new form of skepticism that risks bringing it to collapse, with religious freedom being in the most precarious position.
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US envoy says Ukraine conflict, though forgotten, still a major threat
- Global Church, Interviews
- Oct 17, 2018
In the nearly four years that have elapsed since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula and invaded eastern Ukraine, some 10,000 people have been killed and more than 1.5 million displaced.
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Pollster: Religion can serve as moderating force in politics
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- May 18, 2018
On the internet, as in society, some blame religion for intolerance. But a set of data gleaned from those who voted in the contentious 2016 election in the U.S. found otherwise.
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Flynn to file for governor as pressure mounts over his past as archdiocese’s attorney in abuse cases
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- May 9, 2018
Retired attorney Matt Flynn planned Wednesday to be the first Democrat to submit the required signatures to get on the ballot for Wisconsin governor, despite facing more questions about his past defense of the Milwaukee Archdiocese against allegations of sexual abuse by priests.
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