Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale and Rachel Malinowski have a new article at NCR. They write:

Indeed, we must remember how to weep over this economy of exclusion. We must move beyond the sterilized consideration of people as statistics, as percentages of our population below the poverty line. Instead, we must open ourselves to their stories of suffering and allow ourselves to weep over our brokenness.

Weeping is just the beginning, however. As the prophet Jeremiah demonstrates, God speaks to us through pain and indignation. Once we allow ourselves to overcome our numbness and to feel pain again, we cannot help but cry out for justice. Jeremiah says God’s voice within him “becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.”

By allowing ourselves to hear God’s voice of pain and indignation within us, we are necessarily moved to action. Specifically, our Catholic faith calls us to take action as faithful citizens of our nation. A Christian embraces the cross of Jesus by getting caught up in the grittiness of life and proclaiming God’s saving love in the public sphere.

The full article can be read here.