In response to a recent white nationalist conference in Washington DC, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum offered an important reminder and request: The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words. The Museum calls on all American citizens, our religious and civic leaders, and the leadership of all branches of the government… Read More Will the Bishops Take On the Alt-Right’s Bigotry?
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Not the Time for Reconciliation by Stephen Pope: “We must engage in honest dialogue with Trump supporters who explicitly denounce the cruel and open harassment of minorities that has followed his election. Every decent person must stand up against this horror. Patient and honest communication are… Read More Around the Web
via Craig Timberg, Washington Post: The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation. Russia’s increasingly… Read More Russia Used Propaganda to Attack American Democracy, Support Trump
Pope Francis: “Joy springs from a grateful heart.“
Pope Francis: “We oppose hatred and destruction with goodness. We live in societies of different cultures and religions, but we are brothers and sisters.”
In a message to participants of the COP22 climate change meeting that took place in Marrakech, Pope Francis highlighted the “serious ethical and moral responsibility to take action and implement last year’s Paris climate-change agreement”: “The current situation of environmental degradation – Pope Francis said – which is strongly connected to the human, ethical and… Read More Pope Calls on International Community to Act in Combating Climate Change
A month before the election, a 2005 video of Donald Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women on an Access Hollywood taping surfaced. As I listened to Donald Trump joke about how his celebrity allowed him to assault women without consequence, I felt sick to my stomach. Here we had a presidential candidate actively boasting about… Read More The US Church’s Failure to Stand Against Sexual Assault
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