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Faith and the Faithful in a Time of National Crisis and New Leadership

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Killing in Our Name: Federal Executions and Pro-life Witness

The McCarrick Report: Findings, Lessons, Directions

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The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life is a unique effort to promote dialogue on Catholic social thought and national and global issues, build bridges across political, religious, and ideological lines, and encourage a new generation of Catholic lay leaders to see their faith as an asset in pursuing the common good.

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2021

Faith and the Faithful in a Time of National Crisis and New Leadership Event

On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a mob misled and incited by Donald Trump, the forty-fifth president of the United States, and the following week in that same building will be the site of the inauguration of the forty-sixth U.S. president, Joe Biden. In this moment of horror and…

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8

2021

Killing in Our Name: Federal Executions and Pro-life Witness Event

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10

2020

The McCarrick Report: Findings, Lessons, and Directions Event

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1

2020

Latinos, Young People, and the 2020 Election: What Happened? Why? What Now? Event

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10

2020

Faith and the Faithful in the 2020 Election: What Happened? Why? What Now? Event

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Twelve Themes from Fratelli Tutti by John Carr

John Carr offers 12 themes from Pope Francis' new encyclical: "Fratelli Tutti is a powerful expression of faith in a time of doubt, a call to hope in a time of fear, and a challenge to love in at a time of anger and division."

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I helped write the bishops’ first document on Catholics and voting. Here’s why I’m voting Biden, not Trump.

Initiative director John Carr wrote an article for America on the U.S. Catholic Bishops' document "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship" and political homelessness in the 2020 presidential election. On why he's voting for Joe Biden, Carr says, “Character, competence, honesty, and integrity are crucial."

Pope Francis and the Reform of the Church

On August 31 Georgetown University and La Civiltà Cattolica, a prominent Jesuit journal in Rome, hosted a webinar to discuss the challenges facing Pope Francis in his efforts to reform the Church and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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