I live in a close-knit small town. We volunteer with local organizations, talk to our neighbors, and offer support when a struggle or celebration calls for it. We don’t ask each other about our political affiliations but simply engage in the shared project of building a community together. But I’ll admit: When I happen to […] The post Love your neighbor—even if you don’t love their politics appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
Forty-one years ago, I joined the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, located in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. As a first-generation college student from a working-class family, I needed money to pay for my undergraduate studies, so I worked in the jail, which today has over 1000 personnel and an average daily population of 3000 […] The post Let there be no more Alcatrazes appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
It wasn’t supposed to be this way, Vice President JD Vance complained to tech and corporate leaders gathered at the American Dynamism Summit in Washington last March. “The idea of globalization,” he said, “was that rich countries would move further up the value chain, while the poor countries made the simpler things.” Implicit in the […] The post Pope Leo is taking a stand against the coming AI revolution appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic