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Should President Trump follow through on his threat of indiscriminate destruction of civilian infrastructure, he will have unambiguously committed a war crime.
On Easter Sunday, I did not go to Mass. But I thought about it.
That thought puts me, a lapsed Catholic, closer to understanding a trend, if not yet fully joining in with it.
The Roman Catholic Church is on a roll, with new converts flocking to Mass and attendance growing, The New York Times reported.
According to The Washington Post, some young men have been drawn to the church as they seek “truth, beauty, discipline and meeting a pretty girl at Mass.” For young people, church attendance could be a path to finding love or at least to a meaningful human connection in a world of mindless scrolling. But I think it signals something more profound — the desire to reconnect with a moral universe. Faced with the unbending immorality of our current political leaders, people are open to a voice that forces us to think about where the line between right and wrong should be drawn.
My mom died a few weeks ago. She was 94 and, like many people in their 90s, had been suffering from a variety of ailments, thyroid cancer and dementia among them, which led to a fall, which led to a fractured vertebra, which led to a cervical collar being placed around her neck, which led to a nasal feeding tube, which led to aspiration, which led to pneumonia, which led to her leaving this world. Obviously, her death, even after a long life, was a devastating experience for me, my sister and our whole family. It also taught me a lot about the cross and about compassion.
A remarkable thing has been happening in the Catholic Church in the United States over the past few years: growth.
The absolute number of Catholics remains level, largely because more Catholics are dying than are being baptized. Among adults though, it looks like more people are converting to Catholicism than leaving it. And many dioceses are reporting a significant uptick in people joining the Catholic Church just since 2024. The Archdiocese of Newark reports a 72 percent increase in adult conversions over the past three years. Similar spikes have been reported in Cleveland, Portland, Ore., Cincinnati and many other dioceses.
In the days after revelations about Cesar Chavez and his abuse of two young girls more than fifty years ago, I rewatched Dolores, the 2017 PBS documentary about Dolores Huerta and her founding role in the United Farm Workers (UFW)—a role equally as important as Chavez’s. In 1968, she had moved to New York to work on strategy for the famous farmworkers’ grape boycott. There she met with Gloria Steinem, who helped her begin to think about women’s rights within the larger labor movement. “I was in New York when the feminist movement was being born,” Huerta recalls in the documentary, “but my mind was focused on getting all of those women at those conventions to support the farm workers.” There were few women of color identifying as feminist at the time, as Angela Davis explains, making Huerta’s involvement all the more important, given she was also the only woman on the executive board of the UFW.
