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According to the panelists, American society and the Church have grown more polarized when it comes to ideological differences — and debates about those differences have become less civil.
People of faith must lead with moral goodness to stave the republic from succumbing to the politics of despair fueling violent civil strife.
EDITORIAL: Sustained and driven by our own faith and convictions, the Catholic faithful of America should now collectively gather alongside Archbishop Gomez in striving for national unity and reconciliation — and in reminding our new president that these laudable goals are attainable only if he is willing to moderate his own political extremism in the crucial areas of life, sexuality and religious liberty.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Catholic commentators point to deep social and spiritual causes for the growing split and an essential religious dimension in the way forward.
Leaders and commentators recommend prayer in wake of violence.
A NOTE FROM OUR PUBLISHER: John Carroll, America’s first bishop, urged this prayer to be recited in the parishes throughout the young nation. This is a fitting time to do the same.
EDITORIAL: Only love — the love the Lord Jesus Christ commands his followers to bring into the world — guarantees the future.
According to the noted Catholic scholar, the political anger now enveloping the nation has its roots in the rise of the counterculture in the 1960s.
COMMENTARY: There is something increasingly bitter about political divisions in our own day.
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