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How has religion played a role in Donald Trump’s presidency?
November 2016: Winning 80-81% of white evangelicals. Arguably the biggest religion story of Trump’s presidency is how he got there in the first place: by winning 80-81% of white …
Abortions hit highest number in over a decade after fall of Roe v.
Mar 22, 2024 · The group announced March 19 that “new findings from the Monthly Abortion Provision Study show that an estimated 1,026,690 abortions occurred in the formal health care …
11 (bipartisan) ways to improve voting in the United States
Mar 1, 2021 · A new “Voting Integrity Act” should be a comprehensive recipe for bipartisan consensus and include at least the following 11 elements. Federal funding to assist states in …
Four pro-life philosophers make the case against abortion
Jan 24, 2020 · Hosted by Jorge Garcia (Boston College), the panel featured the philosophers Celia Wolf-Devine (Stonehill College), Anthony McCarthy (Bios Centre in London) and Francis …
The majority of Americans think migrants are ‘invading’ the U.S ...
Sep 15, 2022 · The NPR/Ipsos survey suggests anti-immigrant rhetoric is working. Fewer Americans today—56 percent—said immigrants reflect an important aspect of national identity …
Pope Francis is preparing a radical reform of the church’s power ...
Sep 3, 2021 · The preparation process and the 2023 Synod have the potential to revolutionize the way decisions are made in the Catholic Church and promote a more decentralized structure of …
Why People Are Rejecting Religion—and How to Draw Them In
Apr 18, 2024 · Indeed, P.R.R.I. found that 26 percent of Americans now identify as religiously unaffiliated, a 10-point increase since 2016; and its data suggest that more than one-fifth of …
Anti-Catholicism is real—and it’s turning Catholics against one …
Oct 7, 2020 · Massimo Faggioli has recently called this “ cafeteria anti-Catholicism,”. Perhaps anti-Catholicism was originally meant to divide Catholics from “real Americans.”. But now its …
What Catholics still don’t understand about the sexual abuse crisis
Aug 19, 2021 · The abuse crisis has rocked the church for decades—with a complicated timeline and an even more confusing set of players. Take former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. He …