President-elect Donald Trump has chosen several Catholics to serve in his Cabinet and other parts of his administration, including environmental lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jr, three-term Sen Marco Rubio, Rep Elise Stefanik, and, in an announcement Monday evening, former Rep Sean Duffy. The 45th and soon-to-be 47th president made over a dozen announcements within 10 Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Donald Trump’
Bernie Sanders says the left has lost the working class. Has it forgotten how to speak to them?
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
Donald Trump was elected US president this week. Despite vastly outspending her opponent and drafting a galaxy of celebrities to her cause – Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin, Taylor Swift – Democratic candidate Kamala Harris lost the Electoral College, the popular vote and all the swing states. This has bewildered and dismayed liberals – Read more
US bishops to defend immigrants in Trump’s second term
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
One week after former President Donald Trump’s re-election, US Catholic bishops gathered in Baltimore, committing to defend immigrants and the poor despite anticipated challenges. Leaders of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) emphasised that they would champion vulnerable communities and work towards immigration reform. “As the successors of the Apostles and vicars of Christ Read more
Catholic voters swing to Trump over Harris in election
Thursday, November 7th, 2024
Former President Donald Trump won significant support from Catholic voters in the US presidential election, securing a double-digit lead over Vice President Kamala Harris. Exit polls conducted by the Washington Post, NBC News and the Associated Press reveal that Trump claimed roughly 56% of the Catholic vote compared to Harris’ 41%, a 15-point lead in Read more
Pelosi doesn’t like saying Trump’s name as she’s Catholic: ‘It’s up there with, like, swearing’
Thursday, October 17th, 2024Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she considers Donald Trump’s name a swear word and, because she is Catholic, refuses to say it. Pelosi, a top Democrat from California, revealed her thoughts on saying the former president’s name and described him as “what’s-his-name” during an interview with The Guardian released Tuesday. “I hardly Read more
Biden’s farewell highlights an uncertain future for Catholics in US politics
Monday, August 5th, 2024
US President Joe Biden’s decision not to run for a second presidential term is a major event in US history, but also for American Christianity. It marks the end of a generation of Catholics in politics, those who arrived on the national political scene in the wake of World War II and the GI Bill Read more
Five faith facts about Kamala Harris
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Kamala Harris made history in 2020 as the first Black woman elected as vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men—almost all of them white—entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries. Making history Today, she is one step closer to making history again. On Sunday, Read more
J.D. Vance’s Catholicism. Theological profile of Trump’s heir apparent
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
On July 15, less than a week before Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance, the 39-year-old senator from Ohio (elected in November 2022) as his running mate. If elected with Trump on November 5, Vance would be the second Catholic vice president in U.S. history after Biden. However, Read more
An old president and an old pope
Monday, July 8th, 2024
Americans idolise youth. We want something new, fresh and beautiful. Wrinkles are not badges of wisdom and maturity. They are ugly and need to be stopped with Botox. Today, we have an elderly pope in Rome, an elderly president and an elderly Republican candidate for president. Age and ability Because the 87-year-old pope has difficulty Read more
Media dispute: When a bishop threatens legal action
Thursday, June 13th, 2024
Since the beginning of May, a dispute has flared up in the USA between the Catholic magazine “Commonweal”, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and the media organisation “Word on Fire”, founded by the prominent US bishop Robert Barron. The cause was a column by the Italian theologian and church historian Massimo Faggioli (pictured), who Read more