
‘Politics are shifting in the church right now. We know when politics shift, there are opportunities and there are risks…’

‘Politics are shifting in the church right now. We know when politics shift, there are opportunities and there are risks…’

Despite all the tearing down done by the priests, most recently detailed in the just-released sex abuse documents, nuns have been quietly toiling away doing the church’s real work.

The persistent GOP argument is that we can’t afford to help the poor, but for some inexplicable reason, we always have enough money for the next war and to give tax breaks to the wealthy.

I have religious friends. I have agnostic friends. I have atheistic friends. One thing we all have in common? An interest in improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society. Kind of what that carpenter dude from Nazareth was about.

I’m beginning to think that Republicans should be handed a handlebar mustache and top hat when they register to vote.