Check out these recent articles from around the web: Under the radar: The Democratic Party is in dire straits by Stephen Schneck: “Unless the party can develop new leaders able to rise above the temptations of identity politics and base-mobilizing campaigns, unless it can reorient itself to its roots in the working class, immigrants, and… Read More Around the Web
Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article at Time. He writes: Ryan is very much in the same boat of his two immediate predecessors, Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner. All three are professed Catholics. And like Pelosi and Boehner, Ryan has his own set of difficulties with the Catholic Church on social policies. For… Read More What Paul Ryan Can Learn From the Pope
Millennial writer John McCarthy has a new article at NCR. He writes: His past leadership should give us a clear picture of what we can expect from a Speaker Ryan: doubling down on the failed notion that supporting the rich will allow everyone else to prosper. This has not only been disproven countless times—but is… Read More Paul Ryan: Good for Republicans, Bad for America
Pope Francis: “Service is the sign of true love. We learn this especially in the family, where we become servants out of love for one another.”
via Vatican Radio: The following appeal is issued by Cardinals, Patriarchs and Bishops from across the globe representing the continental groupings of national episcopal conferences. It is addressed to those negotiating the COP 21 in Paris and it calls on them to work toward the approval of a fair, legally binding and truly transformational climate… Read More Bishops Representing Every Continent Call for Fair, Binding, Transformational Climate Agreement
Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has a new article at Dissent. She writes: Christianity, in other words, is no more destined for a cozy relationship with neoliberal, free-market politics than any other ideology, and perhaps less so, given its longstanding interest in the poor. The fact that Christianity is reflexively associated with conservatism in the… Read More Why the Left Needs Religion
Millennial writer Meghan Clark has a new book review at US Catholic. She writes: In six essays, Müller and Gutiérrez detail the complex reality of multidimensional poverty and the gospel mandate for a preferential option for the poor, and they invite all the faithful into the fruits of their reflections. While the text may be… Read More ‘On the Side of the Poor’ reminds us of the true purpose of theology
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