by John Carr
"Washington and War" blog post at America online
Washington is facing a decision it didn’t want, a choice fraught with moral peril, global consequence, human costs and political implications. President Obama stunned the Capitol by deciding to do what he had said presidents should do: require Congress to act before the nation commits military forces.
by John Carr
A journalist friend and I have a running debate about whether American politics or the Catholic Church is in more trouble. It’s often close, with destructive polarization and enormous difficulties facing both, including the continuing impact of the sexual abuse crisis in our church and the many costs of two wars hurting our nation. Ironically, this summer Pope Francis is making the church a place of “hope and change,” while Washington in the Obama era is an increasingly sad place of stalemate and dysfunction.
