Trump’s lies about Haitian migrants are dangerous as well as false

The political rhetoric of the election season presents itself as a kind of photographic negative of that “social and political order whose soul is social charity,” for which Pope Francis called in his encyclical Fratelli tutti. Elections depend on drawing distinctions, to be sure, and negative campaigning is as old as the Republic. Still, this year […]

Trump’s lies about Haitian migrants are dangerous as well as false
The political rhetoric of the election season presents itself as a kind of photographic negative of that “social and political order whose soul is social charity,” for which Pope Francis called in his encyclical Fratelli tutti. Elections depend on drawing distinctions, to be sure, and negative campaigning is as old as the Republic. Still, this year […]