Worth remembering as an election looms and my mailbox overflows and the ads reach saturation points: “policy” is a means, not an end. The former lobbyist in me needs the reminder occasionally. Journalist Kathryn Jean Lopez always provides edifying reading, and she has often made the point that getting a bill passed is not theContinue reading “Life-issue public policy: a means, not an end”
Category Archives: Catholic citizenship
Religious Freedom Week, as we wait for Dobbs
It’s the feast of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher, marking the beginning of Religious Freedom Week as observed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It’s just a week, not a fortnight as was the case back in the early days of the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate. Still, a call to a dedicatedContinue reading “Religious Freedom Week, as we wait for Dobbs”
On Amy Coney Barrett
As one Catholic woman to another, I send my best wishes to Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the U.S. Senate votes on her nomination to the Supreme Court. I don’t know how she’d vote on a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, and neither do you. Even so, I think every objection to her nominationContinue reading “On Amy Coney Barrett”
Ellen Kolb 