Author: Millennial

Assad Regime Using Mass Murder to Empty Prisons of Political Opponents

via the Washington Post: As Syria’s government consolidates control after years of civil war, President Bashar al-Assad’s army is doubling down on executions of political prisoners, with military judges accelerating the pace they issue death sentences, according to survivors of the country’s most notorious prison. In interviews, more than two dozen Syrians recently released from… Read More Assad Regime Using Mass Murder to Empty Prisons of Political Opponents

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Why Dioceses Should Support Struggling Latino Churches

Nichole Flores writes: While Latino Catholics have always been a vital presence in the American church, burgeoning populations of migrants and young people have helped bolster their numbers. And even as growing numbers of Latinos have shifted the geographic center of Catholicism from the Northeast to the Southwest, signs of Latino Catholicism are becoming ubiquitous… Read More Why Dioceses Should Support Struggling Latino Churches

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Holy See Backs More Ambitious Climate Agenda

via Vatican: The consensus on the final document, rather complex and technically detailed, represents a confirmation of the commitments made three years ago in Paris and of the significance of multilateralism. Unfortunately, we must also note that the rulebook does not adequately reflect the urgency necessary to tackle climate change, which “represents one of the… Read More Holy See Backs More Ambitious Climate Agenda

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Stop Blaming Parents for Trying to Save Their Kids’ Lives

Following the recent death of seven-year-old Jakelin Caal, Fr. James Martin, SJ offered his thoughts: I want to point out that blaming the victim, or the victim’s parents, is a terrible, and indeed sinful, perversion of Jesus’s Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10:25-37). Remember that in Jesus’s parable a man takes the Road to… Read More Stop Blaming Parents for Trying to Save Their Kids’ Lives

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