08/25/2026
A central task of any person of goodwill — and certainly of any Catholic committed to the Church’s moral teaching — is to uphold dignity and stand with the downtrodden.
Yet the Trump administration’s contempt for dignity has appealed to some Catholic intellectuals. While they may not support all — or any — of the regime’s violations of human dignity, their dissent from Church teaching can help shed light on its importance and on why we so desperately need to recover it in the face of MAGA’s cruelty.
In his latest for Commonweal, Terence Sweeney argues that Catholic postliberals keen to dismiss dignity as an empty category should consult the Church's Magisterium—and listen to the cries of the vulnerable.
Read more: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/sweeney-dignity-macintyre-trump-church
