via Chicago Tribune: Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich told priests Tuesday that if federal immigration authorities knock on the doors of their parishes without a warrant, priests should turn them away and call the archdiocese’s lawyers. Catholic school principals have been told to do the same. “If they do not have a warrant and it is… Read More Cardinal Cupich: No Immigration Agents on Church Property Without Warrants
Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has a new review of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option in Democracy: Christians who engage in politics have reason to engage beyond their own interests; politics can’t save one’s soul, but it can decree that children receive health care, or that poor families be able to purchase food, or that… Read More Withdrawing from Politics is Not the Right Option for Christians
As nativism and xenophobia grow stronger in the United States, Fr. James Martin explains what the Bible says about refugees, migrants, and foreigners and that the responsibilities we have as Christians are clear.
Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego on our post-truth era: First, “see clearly the situation.” One of the most striking elements of “Laudato Si” is his clear and bold analysis of the empirical realities that threaten the Earth which is our common home. “Seeing the situation clearly” is the whole foundation for that encyclical. It… Read More Alternative Facts and the Dictatorship of Relativism
Last week, Pope Francis spoke at the International Forum on Migration and Peace: Rejection is an attitude we all share; it makes us see our neighbor not as a brother or sister to be accepted, but as unworthy of our attention, a rival, or someone to be bent to our will” (Address to the Diplomatic… Read More Pope Francis: Welcome, Protect, Promote, and Integrate Migrants
Last Thursday, Millennial co-hosted its first event with the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at Catholic University. The topic was ‘How Catholics Should Respond to the Rise of the Alt-Right.’ Dr. Maria Mazzenga of Catholic University provided introductory remarks, which can be read in full here: Exclusionary Catholic Americanism is defensive, adopts a… Read More How Catholics Should Respond to the Rise of the Alt-Right
Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at NCR: I wonder how the country might change if we Christians doubled down on our Lenten observance this year — not just as individuals focusing on our own spiritual growth in preparation for Easter, but as whole faith communities inspired by the radical, self-giving love… Read More We Need Lent Now More Than Ever
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