Why People of Faith Should Care About Democracy and Pluralism
Protect Democracy policy advocate and Millennial guest writer Chris Crawford addressed the thousands of attendees at The Parliament of the World’s Religions conference in Chicago.
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Pope Francis Challenges US Bishops to Sincerely Implement Their Position on Climate Change
via NCR: In Laudate Deum, a new apostolic exhortation released last week, Pope Francis continued the conversation from his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.” Climate scientists said the science is sound, and theologians applauded Francis’ “laser focus” on the climate crisis in Laudate Deum…. Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami celebrated… Read More Pope Francis Challenges US Bishops to Sincerely Implement Their Position on Climate Change
Strengthening Community and Resisting Individualism
via the Georgetown Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life: Individualism too often defines our current social and political moment in the United States. It contributes to polarization, civic disengagement, and general apathy, and it has contributed to the weakening of democratic processes and norms. Especially after the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the… Read More Strengthening Community and Resisting Individualism
Why We Should Care About the Friendship Recession
Millennial writer Meghan Clark writes: For Aristotle, true friendship is a relationship of honesty, acceptance, and mutuality. In a relationship among equals, true friends love and accept one another for their own sake. It is not about competition or networking but rooted in virtue wherein we will the good for the other person, regardless of… Read More Why We Should Care About the Friendship Recession
Quote of the Day
Pope Francis: “Every man, every woman, has our own beauty, we only have to learn how to see it, how to recognize it.”
Millennial Catholic Interviews: Chris Crawford
Chris Crawford is a policy advocate at Protect Democracy and a founding board member of The Center for Christianity and Public Life (CCPL). Millennial editor Robert Christian interviewed him on his work, his faith, and democracy. Why should Catholics care about democracy? We should care about democracy because we are about human dignity; we believe… Read More Millennial Catholic Interviews: Chris Crawford
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Pope Francis: “Terrorism and extremism do not help to reach a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, but fuel hatred, violence, revenge, and only cause each to other suffer. The Middle East needs a peace built on dialogue and the courage of fraternity.”
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