Category Archives: Blog
Around the Web: 5/19/13
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Why the world doesn’t take Catholicism seriously by Matthew Warner “We need an army of saints willing to live a radical life for Christ and others. Saints are compelling. Empty words and prideful lectures are not.” A Mother’s Day plea to stop equating adoption with abandonment […]
Five Years Too Many: A Son’s Anguish
It has now been over five years since Vargha Taefi’s mother, Fariba Kamalabadi, was imprisoned on absurd, baseless charges by Iran’s tyrannical regime. As I mentioned in my previous post on the subject, her real crime is being a member of the Baha’i faith. And for that crime, she has been subject to remarkable cruelty […]
Pope Francis: Worship God, Not the Free Market
In an address earlier today, Pope Francis made comments that are sure to shake Catholic free market enthusiasts down to their boots. The Pope pointed to technological and other forms of progress that have accompanied modernity, but he also said “we must acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue […]
Five Years Too Many
It has now been five years since Iran’s brutal, authoritarian regime imprisoned the Yaran, the seven leaders of the Baha’i community in Iran. My hope is that with all the focus on religious liberty in the US among Catholics and the Bishops, Catholics will come together with others in the global community who believe in […]
Five Reflections After the Conviction of Doctor Kermit Gosnell
Since Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder yesterday afternoon, I’ve been reading and reflecting on the news. There’s no way to make sense of human life taken in such a horrific way, but here are five thoughts that are resonating in my heart. 1) The juxtaposition of Mother’s […]
Breaking: General Efrain Rios Montt Convicted of Genocide in National Courts of Guatemala
The Maya Ixil community, with the support of the Guatemalan community, and the international community, has just won a monumental achievement in the development of international human rights law. Thirty-one years after the Guatemalan military wiped more than 500 indigenous villages off the map, General Efrain Rios Montt, the head of state at the time […]
John Thavis, Pope Francis, and Millennials
I attended a Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good event on Wednesday that featured the journalist John Thavis (this is one of the perks of Millennial being a CACG project, the downside being my epic fail-level small talk as the sole introvert in a room full of bigwig Catholic extroverts). Thavis, the author of […]
