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Jan 13, 2025 | ncronline.org | NCR Voices Where |Kate Scanlon |Michael Sean Winters

Now-U.S. President-elect Donald Trump joins now-Vice President-elect JD Vance during Day 1 of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee July 15, 2024. Trump will be sworn in during the Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration as the 47th president of the United States. (OSV News/Brian Snyder, Reuters) Washington, D.C. — January 13, 2025 After congressional lawmakers formally certified Jan.

Jan 10, 2025 | ncronline.org | NCR Voices Where |NCR Voices Self-care |Michael Sean Winters

Cardinal Robert McElroy is pictured in a 2019 photo. Pope Francis appointed Cardinal McElroy as the next archbishop of Washington in an announcement publicized on Jan. 6. (OSV News/Catholic News Service/Paul Haring) We are in a moment of unprecedented division and uncertainty in both the church and society. That's why Pope Francis could not have made a better choice to lead the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., when he tapped Cardinal Robert McElroy.

Jan 9, 2025 | ncronline.org | NCR Voices Where |NCR Voices Self-care |Kate Scanlon

President-elect Donald Trump Jan. 7 reiterated his call for some companies that make investments in the U.S. economy to bypass some environmental regulations. That proposal is one of several Catholic policy experts who spoke with OSV News expressed concern about when it comes to how the second Trump administration may approach environmental policy.

Jan 8, 2025 | ncronline.org | NCR Voices Where |NCR Voices Self-care |Daniel P. Horan |Michael Sean Winters

There is a well-known quote by the feminist educator, activist and poet Audre Lorde that appears in her 1988 essay collection A Burst of Light: "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." She wrote this within the context of her battle with cancer, but it has echoed through the decades as a powerful reminder to all people engaged in difficult and challenging work, especially the work of justice and peace.

Jan 8, 2025 | ncronline.org | NCR Voices Where |NCR Voices Self-care |Michael Sean Winters

Most significantly, Musk forced Trump to diss his MAGA base when the billionaire said anti-immigrant animus stops at the doors of the tech industry. Musk tweeted support for keeping H-1B visas for highly trained workers, the Steve Bannon wing went crazy, and Trump sided with Musk. Where is JD? We know he has been at Mar-a-Lago. Women's Wear Daily reported on the "snake dress" his wife, Usha, wore at the New Year's gala at the Trump estate. Why the low profile?