PEACE & LIFE CONNECTIONS

A Fantastic Article in Commonweal In a May 22 article in Commonweal, a Catholic journal, Timothy Kirchoff mentions the consistent life ethic several times, and opines from the perspective of Democratic Party electoral politics: Reviving the Pro-Life Democrat While a couple of prominent people have suggested Democrats would have a better winning strategy if they weren’t so dead set against pro-life Democrats running in districts where that’s more likely to win, Kirchoff points

Mainstream Media Attention to the Consistent Life Ethic We recently mentioned the idea that Donald Trump’s rant against Pope Leo might help those stuck in an opposing-camps mindset to see in the pope a better role model for being pro-life. Now we see this dynamic happening in an article in The Atlantic, whose sub-title says it well: “Pope Leo’s Pro-Life Challenge to Conservative Catholics: The Church’s resistance to war and its support for migrants stem from the same principl

Dobbs and Draft Steve Kennedy of Slate offers a highly interesting article behind a paywall: Trump just automated draft entry. It’s time for the Supreme Court to step in. Daniel Hampton of Raw Story discusses this in a free article with what for us is a more on-point title: Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade may have made the US military draft illegal. The idea is, as Hampton puts it: The legal hook is the Roberts court's own "history and tradition" test, introduced i

Trump and Pope Leo Donald Trump has ranted against the pope at length, and as would be expected the pope has stood firm. Though not explicitly stated, there are ways the consistent life ethic is doing good work behind the scenes: Many Trump opponents are cheering the pope in his anti-war stance and defense of the marginalized. If they harbor animosity toward the anti-abortion pro-life cause because of the divided camp they’re in, they now have in the pope a better role model