I wanted to let you all know that I haven’t been able to publish the newsletter this past week due to some challenging family circumstances. Thank you for your patience. Barring the unexpected, however, I do plan on being back on track this week coming up. Here are some things to look forward to in the next few weeks:
We are approaching the one-year anniversary of the Window Light newsletter, so I am planning for some kind of promotion to celebrate that. Stay tuned for details!
At some point soon, I will be appearing as a guest on the Pope Francis Generation podcast, hosted by Paul Fahey and Dominic de Souza. We’ll be talking about the nouvelle théologie and its impact on the Church, as well as Pope Francis’s recent statement on the discipline of theology, Ad Theologiam Promovendam. We’re recording the podcast episode later this week, so it should be available whenever the PFG team is finished editing it. I will definitely let readers know, and hopefully I’ll be able to cross-post it here. In the meantime, you can check out the PFG podcast and Substack newsletter here.
I will try to get one or two interviews of my own published on Window Light in the next few weeks. I know that is something that has been lacking for a while and that readers may be missing!
Finally, in the near future I’d like to write about the recent failed border security bill from the perspective of Catholic social teaching. It is remarkable to me that both congressional Democrats and the White House have taken a stance on asylum that just five years ago would have been rejected by most Democrats as an extremist, far-right position. Advocates for the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers, including those trying to live out the Church’s teaching, ought to be dismayed at this drastic change in the political culture and our society’s concern (or lack thereof) for the vulnerable. I’m not a political analyst, but I do want to think through how Catholics ought to view the current situation.
Thank you for your continued readership, and welcome to relatively recent subscribers!
With regard to the asylum situation, it makes sense to bracket politics, but I hope you'll consider the more challenging aspects of the *policy* situation: the (I think) unprecedented rate of arrivals (partly driven by a perceived leniency) and the huge backlog in the system for processing asylum claims.