Jonathan Sarna, 2016 Greenberg Distinguished Fellow, Provides New Insight on Jews & American Politics
by Andrew Walsh Evidence is emerging that Jewish voters were mobilizing to participate in American political campaigns far earlier than
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Author: Andrew Walsh
Papa Francisco, Si; Catholic Social Teaching, Not So Much
By Andrew Walsh America loves a papal visit. For the tenth time since the Pope Paul VI made a
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David Hollinger on “Secularization and the Future of American Christianity”
For the last several decades, the United States looked like an outlier among industrial nations in the North Atlantic West, remaining a robustly religious country while its European peers moved into ever deeper secularization. But the recent trajectory of decline among those holding liberal religious beliefs strongly suggests that the long-term trend in the United States is toward pervasive secularism on the European model as well, the intellectual historian David A. Hollinger told audiences at Trinity College in Hartford this week.
Read moreEvangelicals Wimp Out on Immigration
In the early months of this year, tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children poured over the U.S. border, creating a new crisis in the ongoing and polarized debate over immigration reform.
Read moreThe Cardinals Knew What They Were Getting
Pre-conclave gossip accurately projects the style and persona of Pope Francis
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