The total betrayal of the people around the issue of migration in the Brexit campaign (In and Out alike, as both campaigns are responsible for not having planned, for not having explained how migration works) glares as we contemplate the paradox of the four migration scenarios that are facing us now.
Brexit Blog #1 : Post-Brexit Stress Disorder
We have yet to find ways to share the values of progressive internationalism with a wider audience. Understandably, we focus on those we know will respond, but in doing so organisations run the risk of re-inscribing marginality, deliberately or not. Deliberately focusing attention on certain sets of people leaves many people overlooked and disengaged. And we can't be surprised by this.
Brexit blogs: Introduction
The Brexit vote has proved a real watershed moment in UK politics. It has made visible deep divisions within and between communities and substantive differences in the way we think about our interests and goods. However, this vote was a complex rather than a simple phenomenon, and it will take us some time to understand its implications for our future: local, regional, national, continental and global.
CCSTP: blogging guidelines
Launch of new Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice
Resisting a Politics of Exclusion: Catholic Social Thought’s Counternarrative
Damaging politics of exclusion continue to hold sway across many regions of the globe. Whether in appeals to anxieties about rapid cultural and demographic changes or more overtly nativist or Islamophobic rhetoric, we revisit representations of the outsider as a social menace across diverse contexts.
U.S. Politics and Global Responsibility
Although the U.S. election season seems never ending, there is no substantive discussion of the world beyond the borders. This claim might seem a bit strange. After all, debate organizers are always careful to balance “domestic” and “foreign” policy. But the “foreign policy” discussion fails to appreciate the deep links between the United States and the rest of the world.
Nick Spencer: What has Christianity to do with Welfare
Fierce and Fragile Life: Report from the Calais 'Jungle'
Forgetting the Good: Moral Contradictions in the Response to Mass Migration
Prof. Peter Scott: 'Responding to Pope Francis’ Encyclical on the Environment'
The Role of Religion in Conflict and Peacebuilding
From discussing ISIS to Development Goals, to Papal visits, to migration flows, various aspects of the broad phenomenon that we call ‘religion’ have become a regular feature of current affairs. However, the extent to and the logic through which religion is or can be associated with conflict and with peace remains a highly disputed issue.
Meghan Clark: Pope Francis and Solidarity
Why the UK needs a lifebelt to keep us all afloat
Charlie Hebdo attacks: a horrific escalation of violence in an already tense society
France has been the target of several attacks perpetrated by so-called Muslim fundamentalists over the past few years, but the shooting of editors and cartoonists at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo marks a new low.
