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‘Cafeteria Catholicism’ and navigating the moral dilemmas of US election campaigns in 2024

January 15, 2024

As in every year divisible by four, Americans will elect a president in November 2024. While the major parties’ respective primary processes have already begun, the turn of the new year focuses our national attention on this quadrennial circus. After the parties nominate their respective candidates sometime in late spring or early summer, those nominees

US priesthood riven by ‘generational mistrust’ as conservative shift leaves younger priests ‘suspicious’ of Church hierarchy

December 23, 2023

NEW YORK, Crux – When asked to sum up the state of the American priesthood, Catholic University of America sociologist Brandon Vaidyanathan describes it as “fractured,” in that individually priests are doing well, but their assessment of the institutional Church “is not very good”. What’s more, research conducted by Vaidyanathan and others has found that

‘Freedom is ever new’: The legacy of Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States endures

February 01, 2023

The legacy of Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States endures, says Fr Carter Griffin

America’s military complex

June 28, 2022

Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War by Phil Klay Penguin, $27, 272 pages Leaving the Marine Corps in 2009 to embark on an instantly successful writing career, Phil Klay “envisioned [his] task primarily as making sense of the past”. He discovered quickly that it was not the past. Six years later,