Check out these recent articles from around the web: I told Paul Ryan what it’s like to be poor. I wonder if he remembers me now. by Tianna Gaines-Turner: “The structural changes Ryan envisions — sometimes referred to as “per capita caps” or “block grants” — are actually budget cuts that will devastate the safety… Read More Around the Web
This week, Fr. James Martin, SJ was appointed as a consultor to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications. He was also interviewed in Vanity Fair on his social media presence in the Trump era: Vanity Fair: Those of us in the media joke about “hot takes,” where you weigh in quickly on a topic that everyone’s talking… Read More New Vatican Consultor Fr. James Martin on Holy Week and the Gospel’s Radical Message
Pope Francis: “For as we all know, it is in the little things that joy is best seen and shared: when by taking one small step, we make God’s mercy overflow in situations of desolation; when we decide to pick up the phone and arrange to see someone; when we patiently allow others to take… Read More Quote of the Day
Millennial writer Christopher White has a new article at Crux. He writes: Hostility to this pope has been mounting from the earliest days of his papacy, when his pro-life credentials were called into question, when his economic views were mocked, and when an entire encyclical was practically ignored by certain constituencies within the Church. As… Read More Why Church Unity Matters
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Millennial writer Elizabeth Bruenig and her husband Matt Bruenig recently spoke at the Harvard Law Forum on building a moral economy. You can watch the full video here:
Cardinal Blase Cupich has a new op-ed in the Chicago Tribune: We must not allow ourselves to be desensitized to violence. We must not look away. Nor should we become so hardened by these terrible crimes that we lose the will to help those trapped by a culture of despair, who are afforded few options,… Read More Cardinal Cupich: To End Violence, We Must Mend the Safety Net
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