Faith and the Future of the Democratic Party: A Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

A Democratic Party that loses 56-41 percent among Catholics, like it did in 2024, is a Democratic Party without a future in vast portions of this country.

I’ve worked on the intersection of Catholicism and Democratic politics since 2012. The high point of that relationship was Pope Francis’s 2015 visit to the United States. It’s been downhill ever since.

Dear friends,

After the 2024 election, I wrote a Newsweek piece about why Kamala Harris lost the Catholic vote so badly.

I'm republishing it here because I…