Last week, the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University hosted The Francis Factor at Five Years: Reflection and Dialogue. The event featured a talk by Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, the editor in chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, followed by a panel of Greg Erlandson, the director and editor-in-chief of Catholic… Read More The Francis Factor at Five
Pope Francis: “Our contagious joy must be our first testimony to the closeness and love of God.”
Meghan Clark writes: Unpredictability is perhaps the linchpin of President Trump’s negotiating style and social media plan. He brags about it, and his base appreciates it as a mark of authenticity. Yet as I traveled around East Africa, I found that his unpredictability and crass belittling of others is fostering an existential anxiety among those… Read More Trump’s Presidency is Fostering Anxiety in Africa
via USCCB: Late last week, the Senate failed to achieve the 60 votes needed to move forward with debate on legislation to provide relief to Dreamers. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, USCCB President; Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, USCCB Vice President; and Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of Austin, Chairman of the USCCB Committee… Read More US Bishops Announce National Call-in Day for Dreamers
Pope Francis: “In the face of evil, suffering and sin, the only response possible for a disciple of Jesus is the gift of self, even of one’s own life, in imitation of Christ; it is the attitude of service.”
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami writes: Victims of usury are often the working poor and elderly on fixed incomes who when faced with a financial emergency seek a short-term loan….legal forms of usury survive, in a form of predatory banking, known as “payday loans.” Payday loans appear (and are marketed as) simple and straightforward help… Read More Archbishop Wenski: Regulate Payday Loans, Address the Sin of Usury
Christopher Hale writes: This “Ash Wednesday Valentine’s Day” gives us an opportunity to reconsider what love is, and what love is not. For a Christian, the rock band Boston got it right in 1976: Love is “more than a feeling.” We doubt the authenticity of the Kay Jewelers, empty-shelled love that marks the bourgeois celebration… Read More Ash Wednesday Valentine’s Day Can Remind Us of the True Nature of Love
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