Check out these recent articles from around the web: America Does Not Need the Death Penalty by the New York Times: “Mr. Biden was right to identify capital punishment as a moral affront, and he should help relegate this practice to history.” Why Are Innocents Still Being Executed? by Elizabeth Bruenig: “America is currently experiencing… Read More Around the Web
Christian leaders, including Catholic defenders of democracy like Nichole Flores, have joined together to create and endorse a statement to “reaffirm Christian support for democracy and invite all Christians and people of moral conscience to do the same.” It includes the following: On the Imago Dei and Human Dignity. Core to Christianity is the belief… Read More Catholic Leaders Endorse Statement Affirming a Christian Case for Democracy
via the Vatican: Today’s migratory routes are often marked by crossings of seas and deserts, which for many, too many people — too many! — are deadly. Therefore, today I want to dwell on this tragedy, this pain. Some of these routes we know well, because they are often in the spotlight; others, the majority,… Read More Pope Francis: Repelling Migrants is a Grave Sin
Ellen B. Koneck is the executive director at Commonweal. Millennial editor Robert Christian interviewed her on her faith, life, joy, young people, and more. You’re familiar with a great deal of research on young people and religion, and you’ve spoken about this on a number of occasions. What is distinct about Gen-Z and/or younger millennials… Read More Millennial Catholic Interviews: Ellen B. Koneck
Pope Francis: “Do you want to be great? Make yourself small and put yourself at the service of everyone. In the #GospelOfTheDay (Mark 9:30-37), Jesus renews our way of living. He teaches us that true power does not lie in domination by the strong, but in the care for the weak.”
Watch Millennial writer Nichole Flores in a recent Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life panel at Georgetown University. The panel explored the political and religious dynamics of the 2024 US presidential election.
Millennial writer Meghan Clark is quoted extensively in a recent OSV News article at NCR: Meghan J. Clark, an associate professor of moral theology at St. John’s University in the Queens borough of New York and the author of “The Vision of Catholic Social Thought: The Virtue of Solidarity and the Praxis of Human Rights,”… Read More Walz, Vance, and Catholic Social Teaching
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