Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has a new article at TNR. She writes: Oliver pointed out that the United States is singular among developed nations in its complete failure to provide any paid leave to mothers whatsoever. Globally, we are joined only by Papua New Guinea in our lack of paid maternity leave policy, according… Read More Paid Leave Is Going to Matter in 2016
Pope Francis: “Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: U.S. Holocaust museum says this Muslim minority could face genocide by Ishaan Tharoor: “The official American institution memorializing the Holocaust sounded the alarm this week on the threat of a genocide facing the beleaguered Rohingya of Burma, one of the world’s most neglected communities.” Paul Ryan… Read More Around the Web (Part 2)
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Cantu and Cupich: Families are more than groups of consumers by Patrick Reardon: “Catholic social teaching about the family and the human person ‘flies in the face of the modern individualist attitudes that pervade our culture,’ Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, N.M., told a gathering… Read More Around the Web (Part 1)
Pope Francis: “Indifferent individualism leads to the cult of opulence reflected in the throwaway culture all around us. We have a surfeit of unnecessary things, but we no longer have the capacity to build authentic human relationships marked by truth and mutual respect.”
Thomas Reese recently wrote an article at NCR on the reaction of activists and scholars to Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical. Millennial writer Daniel DiLeo offered his thoughts: “The climate crisis is an issue of unparalleled urgency,” says Dan DiLeo of the Catholic Climate Covenant. “Scientists generally agree that there is a closing window of opportunity… Read More Activists and Scholars on Pope Francis’ Upcoming Environmental Encyclical
Last week, Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras, one of the pope’s closest advisers, spoke at Georgetown on the mission and message of Pope Francis, along with what we might expect when Francis addresses the US Congress. David Gibson has highlighted some of the cardinal’s most interesting quotes from his trip to DC: “Even here,… Read More Cardinal Rodriguez Explains Pope Francis’ Mission and Message, Previews Trip to Congress
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