
David DeCosse
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3 weeks ago |
ncronline.org | David DeCosse |Michael Sean Winters
Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California (Unsplash/Carles Rabada) The tech bro billionaires for Trump say we are facing a crisis of civilization. Catholicism would like to have a word. In his widely-noted 2023 "Techno-Optimist Manifesto," the Silicon Valley billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said: "Our civilization was built on technology.
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Sep 30, 2024 |
ncronline.org | David DeCosse |Jim Wallis |E.J. Dionne |Simone Campbell
A group of Catholic and Protestant scholars, church leaders and activists issued a public letter urging Christians in the United States and around the world to defend democracy against intensifying authoritarian threats. They also met for two days at a summit in Washington to discuss the letter's key points.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
ncronline.org | David DeCosse
Anxious comparisons have become commonplace between Germany's slide into dictatorship in the 1930s and the rise of an authoritarian, populist nationalism in the United States today. How should the Catholic Church in the U.S. respond to this troubling moment? The work of the 20th-century political theorist Hannah Arendt can help.
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Jun 25, 2024 |
ncronline.org | David DeCosse
Written in 1885, the Baltimore Catechism had its pilgrim eyes fixed on the world beyond: To be saved meant that the individual Catholic could "attain the supernatural happiness of heaven."Meeting June 13-16 in Baltimore at its annual convention, the Catholic Theological Society of America brought the matter of salvation firmly back to earth.
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Apr 23, 2024 |
ncronline.org | David DeCosse
Briana, a 1-year-old migrant girl from Peru, is carried by her father, Jordan, as they search for an entry point into the United States past a razor wire-laden fence along the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, March 26. (OSV News/Reuters/Adrees Latif) The students and I stood in a packed migrant shelter in Altar, Sonora, Mexico, in front of several young men who had clambered down from three-tiered bunk beds attached high up on the wall.
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