Millennial writer Chris Crawford writes: Eleven years ago this summer, a troubled white man entered the historic Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., and opened fire on a group of Black worshippers who had welcomed him into their Bible study. He intended to start a race war. He failed. He failed not just because the… Read More Lessons from Charleston as America Turns 250

Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: A sense of precarity haunts the American psyche at the present moment. Many feel squeezed–with growing inequality hollowing out the middle class, along with an affordability crisis rooted in high long-term inflation in healthcare, childcare, education, and housing. Recent inflation in food and energy costs have increased the pressure. The… Read More Love is Undefeated

In September, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, in his last year as the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America, gave a speech on woke culture, post-liberalism, and the response of the Social Doctrine of the Church. He begins by addressing the crisis in liberalism and two responses (all quotes are in italics): During the first… Read More A Catholic Alternative to Bourgeois Liberalism, Identity Politics, and Authoritarianism

via the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life: Just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the death of Pope Francis and the election of Pope Leo XIV, two papal biographers discussed the historic choice of the first pope from the United States. Drawing on their on-the-ground reporting in Rome, Austen Ivereigh and Christopher… Read More Pope Francis and Pope Leo: Continuity, Change, and the Conclave that Elected a U.S. Pope

via America: This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac speak with Timothy Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics and founder of the nonprofit UNITE, which incubated the Dignity Index, a language evaluation tool that aims to bring greater dignity to our public discourse.

Nadia Suleman writes: As executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley (CCRGV) since 2004, Sister Norma Pimentel has helped transform the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, into a place of refuge that has served more than 100,000 migrants, providing them with food, shelter, and essentials like clothing and hygiene products. But… Read More Sister Norma Included in Time’s ‘Women of the Year’

At America, John Carr offers lessons from 50 years at the intersection of Catholic social teaching and public life, including these: Over these 50 years, I have learned that this work should begin with our faith, not our politics; with the person of Jesus Christ, not political leaders; with the Eucharist, not rallies; and with… Read More 8 Lessons on Catholic Social Teaching, Politics, Leadership, and Dialogue