via Vatican News: Jesus is radical.  He gives all and he asks all: he gives a love that is total and asks for an undivided heart…. Jesus is not content with a “percentage of love”: we cannot love him twenty or fifty or sixty percent.  It is either all or nothing. Dear brothers and sisters,… Read More Pope Francis: Jesus is Radical, Giving All and Asking All

In article that quotes Millennial writer Meghan Clark and guest writer Susan Reynolds, Heidi Schlumpf writes: In an age of Trump and given the serious issues facing the country and the world, theologians are seeing the urgency of doing public theology, a term coined by Lutheran theologian Martin Marty in the 1970s. But given the… Read More The Challenges and Urgency of Doing Public Theology in 2018

Pope Francis: “In our daily lives we experience the tenderness of God who lovingly saves us from our sins, fears and anxieties.”

via Vatican News: Cardinal Marc Ouellet writes to “his fellow brother”, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, responding to his accusations according to his own personal knowledge and documents in the archive of the Congregation for Bishops, and asks him to return to full communion with the Successor of Peter. Here are some highlights: Your current position… Read More Card. Ouellet: Vigano’s “Political Maneuver” against Pope is Deplorable, Blasphemous, Unjustified

via Washington Post: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to two people who have brought attention to ending sexual violence against women in armed conflict. Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist treating victims of gang rape, and Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi who has spoken about her own suffering at the hands of the Islamic… Read More Denis Mukwege and 2016 Millennial of the Year Nadia Murad Win Nobel Peace Prize