Here is part two of our compilation of the most popular posts from our Millennial writers and editors in our second year:

The Beauty of Breastfeeding by Jeff Sullivan, SJ (2/18/14): “The challenge, then, for those of us invited to into such intimacy is just to continue the conversation, share in the communion, allow ourselves to be at ease with who they are as mothers and who we are as witnesses as best we can.”

How You Can Address Income Inequality and Poverty by Billy Kangas (2/25/14): “As Catholics I believe we are all called to take action with our time, voice, and resources to make an impact in our communities. We should take time to talk and learn about poverty. We should take time to speak up about poverty to our friends and, more importantly, to our policy makers. We should take time to pray about poverty. We should take time to serve those in poverty. We should use our resources to support those in poverty.”

The Catholic Church’s Drinking Problem by Robert Christian (3/3/14): “From parishes to parochial schools to university classrooms, the Church is failing in its responsibility to talk about the pernicious impact of alcohol (and even drugs) on so many people in our society, along with the detrimental impact it has on achieving the common good.”

Global Catholicism: The Church is Changing, But Not How We Might Think by Jeremy Zipple, SJ (3/14/14): “Whatever the church ends up looking like in 2050, the days of western centralization are numbered. So from here on out, I’ve resolved to spend a lot more time paying attention to the issues concerning my non-western housemates…”

Caution: Entitlement & Personal Responsibility by Meghan Clark (3/31/14): “Structural change is needed. Cultural change is needed. Personal participation is needed. But perhaps a good place to start is changing the ‘entitled culture’ of the privileged more than obsessing over a potential ‘entitlement culture’ of those living in or near poverty.”

Two Life & Justice Saints: Popes John XXIII and John Paul II by Mike Jordan Laskey (4/24/14): “If common good was Pope John XXIII’s favorite phrase, human dignity is Pope John Paul II’s favorite. In this encyclical, he shows how the Church’s care for all human life represents our striving to emulate God’s love for each and every person.”

The Death of the “Colbert Report” and New Life in Christ by Patrick Manning (4/30/14): “In clenching our hands around what little we have, we close ourselves off from the infinite riches God desires to share with us—new experiences, new relationships, new selves, and a love greater than we think our hearts can bear. If we would receive all the goodness that God wants for us, we must loosen our grip and open ourselves to the unfamiliar, the uncertain, the unforeseen.”

Inequality & Social Sin: Pope Francis & Elizabeth Warren by Meghan Clark (5/6/14): “First, we need to tackle the specific structural policies and laws of injustice. Here Elizabeth Warren proposes concrete political and economic changes to the American structure to use our resources more fully for the benefit of all. Second, and something that is much more difficult, we need a conversion of hearts to build solidarity. Pope Francis urges us to participate in building solidarity, thereby reducing divisive inequalities by reminding us that we are all equally created in the image and likeness of God.”

Why Ending Hunger is a Pro-life Issue by Billy Kangas (5/29/14): “I have become deeply concerned with how the pro-life movement seems complacent in standing up for policies that would protect and preserve one of the most basic needs of each human life: food.”

The Dirtiest Word in Jesuit Higher Education by Brendan Busse, SJ (7/21/14): “Conversion. We’re in the business of conversion. I’m not talking about baptizing pagan babies (those days are behind us) but rather the conversion of hearts and minds toward the needs of the poor and vulnerable. Our education seeks to convert people to a life of empathy and understanding through the insights of the creative imagination and profound intellectual inquiry.”

Crisis at the Border: A Personal Story and Practical Solutions by Kate Gordon (7/22/14): “This month, as I have been hearing of the thousands of children fleeing Central America, the story of one mother and her murdered son keeps coming to my mind.”

Sisters in Christ: The Importance of Community by Sarah Babbs (8/8/14): “We are swimming upstream in a culture that would not care if we drowned, and we need each other.”

Bruised, Hurting and Dirty: The Missionary Church of Pope Francis by Christopher Hale (8/18/14): “A missionary disciple is willing to engage, encounter, and befriend anyone. And in everyone, they can experience God’s love and learn something more of the grandeur of God and God’s people.”

James Foley and Catholic Education by Nichole Flores (8/21/14): “Even in those moments of intense fear and uncertainty, Foley remembered the most vital lesson that Catholic education can offer: that he was not alone. Let us pray that Foley remembered this same lesson in the final moments of his life, where he suffered the ultimate cost of discipleship.”