The Globe and Mail Michael W. Higgins Published January 15, 2021
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Michael W. Higgins is interim
president of St. Mark’s and Corpus Christi Colleges at the University of British Columbia and a senior fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.
It is often observed that U.S. president-elect Joe Biden wears his emotions on his sleeve. His capacity for empathy is on ready display. But it is not the only thing he carries on his sleeve. He has “Catholic” written all over him.
It is not that you can hear that “the dogma lives loudly within” him, as Senator Dianne Feinstein of California notoriously remarked of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett during her hearing for an earlier promotion. There is nothing dogmatic about Mr. Biden’s Catholicism; it is bred in the bone. It is as much a part of who he is as his Irish heritage, his Pennsylvania roots and his Delaware upbringing.
Mephistopheles in America The bishops and their clerical underlings have failed to guide America s Catholics to be a discerning, peaceful, loving community shaped by the Gospel
Pro-Trump protesters seen on and around Capitol building. Rioters broke windows and breached the Capitol building in an attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. Police used batons and tear gas grenades to eventually disperse the crowd. Rioters used metal bars and tear gas as well against the police. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire/ MaxPPP)
The legendary Faust s desire for power led him into a pact with Mephistopheles, the agent of Satan. The deal was straightforward. In exchange for the fulfillment of all his desires in this life, hell would get Faust s soul after death.
Undocumented workers have fears about COVID vaccine
Jan 6, 2021 national correspondent
Enedelia Martinez holds a picture of her partner, Raul Castaneda, who died of COVID-19 in April, at their Shoreview, Minn., home July 20, 2020. (Credit: Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit, via CNS.)
Experts make it clear: everyone in the United States that can needs to get vaccinated for the nation to have chance at herd immunity from the coronavirus, and that includes the millions of undocumented immigrants countrywide.
NEW YORK Experts make it clear: Everyone in the United States that is able to get vaccinated needs to get the vaccine to help the nation achieve herd immunity from the coronavirus, and that includes the millions of undocumented immigrants countrywide.
An outspoken champion for racial justice has been pulled from the airwaves by conservative Catholic media conglomerate EWTN.
On Dec. 30, EWTN-owned Catholic News Agency reported that the radio show ".
Coronavirus, elections, and McCarrick dominate 2020 in U.S.
Dec 30, 2020 national correspondent
2020 in the United States, like the rest of the world, will always be synonymous with the coronavirus pandemic. It’s taken over 330,000 American lives to date, put millions out of work and single-handedly changed the way society lives and communicates.
That is, however, only one chapter in the story of the American Catholic Church in 2020.
NEW YORK 2020 in the United States, like the rest of the world, will always be synonymous with the coronavirus pandemic. It’s taken over 330,000 American lives to date, put millions out of work and single-handedly changed the way society lives and communicates.