Check out these recent articles from around the web:

Many life milestones are out of millennials’ reach by Catherine Rampell: “We want to move out. We want to own our home. We want to marry. We want to work. The problem is, many of us can’t.”

U.N. Investigators Cite Atrocities in Syria by NY Times: “Among the dozen statements from witnesses selected by the panel were accounts of families torn apart by shelling and former prisoners describing their torture in government detention centers and deaths of cellmates from injuries sustained during interrogation, insufficient medical care and lack of air in densely packed cells. A prisoner held in a military jail reported that severely malnourished patients had been chained, naked, two or four to a bed, without sufficient medical attention and that they were subjected to torture.”

Why Climate Change Concerns Pro-Life Christians by Tom Krattenmaker: “This is not a post dedicated to bludgeoning those unmoved by liberals’ warnings about climate change. It is an invitation to people, especially Christians, to think about what’s happening to the water, and what will happen to us if there’s not enough of it to go around.”

Europe after Secularisation: What Future has Christianity on the Continent? by Tomas Halik: “One of the fundamental issues of today’s world, in my view, is whether, within the framework of globalisation, it will be possible to create a certain culture of dialogue and make globalisation a process of communication. Interfaith dialogue would be an inseparable part of such a process.”

Self-Made in America by Elbert Ventura: “What if the 1 percent and the quintile or two just below them were more mindful of luck, privilege, and pedigree? The point isn’t to paralyze them with guilt….What we want to instill in the American achiever is not guilt but a profound self-awareness, a quality that can restore humility and gratitude where unearned hubris has swept in. That way lies a happier society and a more gracious politics.”

Our excessive tolerance of suicide by Michael Gerson: “But the first tendency of our society should mirror our best instincts as human beings: To support those with serious physical and mental illness. To care for those in dark moments. And not to send a social message — through a law and a doctor with a final IV — that those who feel fragile and useless are right to think so.”

The Malala Effect: Her Global Fight for Girls’ Rights by Genevieve Roth: “Exactly two years ago, terrorists tried to take Malala Yousafzai’s life. Instead, they created a global powerhouse fighting on behalf of girls everywhere.”

Abortion coverage on the health-care exchanges: still a fine mess by Grant Gallicho: “The way abortion coverage is handled on the health-care exchanges is a mess. It’s well past time for the Obama administration to clean it up.”

Compassion and Kinship: Fr. Greg Boyle TedTalk by Anna Keating: “How do we create and imagine a circle of compassion and then imagine nobody standing outside of that circle?”

With binge drinking on rise, colleges take steps to address its dangers by Katie Scott: “The consequences of excessive alcohol consumption range from embarrassing to life-shattering and include everything from academic problems to assault, sexual abuse and death. To help educate students on the dangers and offer healthy alternatives, Catholic colleges in northern Virginia and Washington and a Catholic campus ministry have established a number of programs and outreach efforts.”