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Robert Kuttner is cofounder and coeditor of The American Prospect and professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School. His latest book is “Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America.”
As we enter the last years of active life, among the accumulating losses is the loss of old friends. There are only so many of them. When they are gone, they are irreplaceable. You can travel to new places and take up new hobbies, but you can’t make new lifelong friends.
Except, it turns out that sometimes you can.
This may sound corny, but stay with me. I’ve been developing deepening friendships with people who I knew casually, or didn’t much like, or didn’t know at all, when we were in high school together more than 60 years ago.
If all you want is Mass, no problem. If you want a pastor, big problem. A priest is ordained first and foremost to provide the sacraments. Only he can do that. So let’s help him to do that properly. The best way is for you and I to do everything else.
Christian language about peace, justice, and reconciliation loses public credibility when churches prioritize conflict avoidance over truth, enforce forgiveness.
AFL–CIO President Liz Shuler onstage at the Clinton Global Initiative 2025 Annual Meeting at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York, N.Y. on September 25, 2025. Credit: Efren Landaos/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images
Liz Shuler, the president of the AFL-CIO, described the significance of Pope Leo’s encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” as “huge, absolutely huge,” in this exclusive interview with America. “When I first read it,” she said, “I just felt like this could have been a document written by the trade union movement.” She said she was also impressed by “the convening power of the church” and considered this very important in our day.
Ms. Shuler is the first woman president of the AFL-CIO, and she represented the American labor unions at the fourth synodal encounter, “Fratelli Tutti: North-South socio-environmental dialogue,” which was held in the Vatican Sept. 11-13.
A demonstrator wearing a T-shirt with the phrase “We the People” holds a sign and a U.S. flag outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, April 1, 2026 (OSV News photo/Kylie Cooper, Reuters).
Our dysfunctional Constitution has helped save us from Donald Trump. That starts with the Congress. Early in Trump’s second term, Steve Bannon was sneering that Congress is now like the Duma, Putin’s poodle. To be sure, Congress has been servile. But the servility of Congress is not at all like the Duma’s servility to Putin. Whatever Putin wants, the Duma turns into law. Trump wants a lot of things that Congress hasn’t given him—and a lot of things it can’t give him.
