Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at NCR. He writes: The word “martyr” means witness, and these Syrian witnesses blow me away. Their everyday lives make them more personally intimate with the story of St. Stephen than most of us ever will be. Yet, confronted by unimaginable violence, they showed up to… Read More My New Year’s Resolution: Be a Witness
via CNS: The Burlington, Vermont, diocese will observe a special Year of Creation during 2017. Similar to the global Year of Mercy, which emphasized the role of mercy in the Catholic faith, the diocesan-wide Year of Creation will bring an intentional, heightened focus on ecological justice. Various events, initiatives and resources will be made available… Read More Burlington Diocese Will Celebrate Year of Creation in 2017
Pope Francis: “Small gestures of love, of tenderness, of care, make people feel that the Lord is with us. This is how the door of mercy opens.”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: How Social Isolation Is Killing Us by Dhruv Khullar: “A great paradox of our hyper-connected digital age is that we seem to be drifting apart. Increasingly, however, research confirms our deepest intuition: Human connection lies at the heart of human well-being. It’s up to all of… Read More Around the Web
Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has a new article at Jacobin: Christianity is at all times concerned with the poorest, the most vulnerable, the most oppressed; it is permanently interested in reversing this order, in aiming at and accomplishing the unexpected. Christmas, the moment when time is invaded by eternity, is the moment when the… Read More Christmas is a Call to Revolution.
Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article at the Washington Post. He writes: The meaning of Christmas isn’t strength and visibility in the public sphere. The central claim of this holiday has always been that the rejected, crucified and executed Jesus Christ is still somehow Lord of the entire earth. In Trump’s world, those… Read More Pope Francis is Waging War on a Bourgeois Approach to Christmas. Let’s Join Him.
Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago offers a Christmas message of hope, mercy, unity, and peace, while encouraging us to see immigrants and refugees as a blessing rather than a problem.
