via the Vatican: For it is the purity of the soul that, in Mary — as in us — by the grace of God, illuminates and transfigures the whole person, leading us to the glory of Heaven. The glorification of Mary, body and soul, teaches us that our true beauty does not lie in hiding… Read More Pope Leo: Let Us Reexamine Our Hedonistic and Consumerist Aesthetic Standards
Millennial editor Robert Christian interviewed Jonathan Lewis, Mission Strategy Officer for the Paulist Fathers and Co-Director of the Communion Project, on his work, depolarization, digital engagement, and his faith. What is the Communion Project? Why was it created? The Communion Project is a movement that seeks to lower the temperature of division and polarization among… Read More Millennial Catholic Interviews: Jonathan Lewis
Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” The struggle for freedom and justice requires courage, persistence, resilience, and faith. One of the greatest… Read More Those Who Are Just Must Be Kind
Millennial editor Robert Christian interviews Dr. Anthony Annett, economist and author of Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy, on the rise of Christian Democracy after World War II, the development of Catholic Social Teaching, and the lessons these developments may offer. You can read his Commonweal article on this subject here.
Two weeks before her death on March 30, 1990, US Catholic interviewed Sister Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., who said: I pray for the children, that they may be saved and sheltered and nourished. I pray for the church and all the members of the church that they may be empowered to do the work of the… Read More Flashback: The Prayers of Sister Thea Bowman
Fr. Patrick Gilger, S.J. writes: What the manosphere is, in other words, is a cacophony of conflicting answers—some encouraging, some infuriating—to the shared question of what it means to be a man today…. As the great philosopher Charles Taylor shows in his essay “Politics of Recognition,” people often felt that those prefabricated social identities distorted… Read More How the Church Should Respond to the Rise of the ‘Manosphere’
In a recent interview with Georgetown, Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, states: “Magnifica Humanitas” delivers on Pope Leo’s commitment to address the challenges and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence. The question is no longer whether AI will transform our world; that transformation is already underway. The real… Read More 5 Key Takeaways on ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ and Pope Leo’s Vision for AI
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