Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: What was the pro-life movement like before the Supreme Court transformed American politics with its ruling in Roe v. Wade? This question would stump most people, including many pro-life activists. Generally, most people associate the pro-life movement with the rise of the religious right and the election of Ronald Reagan… Read More Before Roe, New Deal Democrats Led the Pro-Life Movement
via Vatican Radio: Omission is also the great sin where the poor are concerned. Here it has a specific name: indifference. It is when we say, “That doesn’t regard me; it’s not my business; it’s society’s problem”. It is when we turn away from a brother or sister in need, when we change channels as… Read More Pope Francis: Our Indifference to the Poor is a Great Sin of Omission
Christopher White writes: This year alone, over 13,000 people have died as a result of gun violence in this country. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an average of 93 Americans is killed by guns each day based on data from the past five years. It’s for this reason that the… Read More Take Action against Gun Violence
Pope Francis: “The greater the sin, the greater the love that must be shown by the Church to those who repent.”
Michael O’Loughlin reports for America: Catholic bishops say the G.O.P.-backed tax reform plan is “unconscionable” and “unacceptable,” pointing to “fundamental structural flaws” that they say “will raise income taxes on the working poor while simultaneously providing a large tax cut to the wealthy.” In a letter sent to members of the House of Representatives, three… Read More US Bishops: Republican Tax Plan is Unconscionable and Unacceptable
MSW, highlighting a presentation by Millennial writer Nichole Flores, writes: There was an entire conference on the subject of polarization in which I participated, at the University of Notre Dame, which resulted in the book Polarization in the US Catholic Church: Naming the Wounds, Beginning to Heal…. All of the contributions at the conference were… Read More Too Many Catholics Are Complicit in Trump’s Racism
In an interview with EJ Dionne, Cardinal Blase Cupich discusses a wide range of topics and issues, including the consistent ethic of solidarity, which he contrasted with the divisive approach of libertarianism, and the need for a comprehensive approach to addressing abortion:
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