Check out these recent articles from around the web: This is no way to ease inequality by EJ Dionne: “I’d respect these folks a lot more if they said what they clearly believe: They think more inequality would be good for us. It almost makes you nostalgic for the candor of the Mitt Romney who… Read More Around the Web
The anointing of Jesus at the house of Simon the Leper causes quite the stir in today’s Gospel. Scandalized by the cost of the oil used, onlookers ask why the money was not given to the poor. But Jesus responds, “She has done a good thing for me.” How often am I like those “indignant”… Read More Lenten Reflection Series: Choosing Mercy Where We Can
Pope Francis: “The growth of inequality and poverty threaten inclusive and participatory democracy, which always presupposes an economy and a market that does not exclude [people] and which are equitable.”
Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article in Time. He writes: Francis’s conception of Mary is not just as the meek mother of God, but also as a strong and courageous leader of the faith. While studying in Germany in the late 1980s, the future pope, then named Jorge Mario Bergoglio, developed an… Read More Pope Francis, Mary, and a Church Where Women Are Leaders
Pope Francis: “This is essential for salvation: that we may show mercy and love not only those who love us, but also those who cannot repay us, just as the Father had mercy on us and loved us through the gift of his Son Jesus.”
We’re well into Lent. Perhaps what we gave up has slipped (or we have come up short in those areas where we promised to do a little bit better). Maybe we’ve started eating chocolate again, or jumped back on Facebook, or were cruel to others. Easter still seems a long way off, and perhaps we… Read More Lenten Reflection Series: Making the Journey
Today in the Gospel, the scribes and Pharisees present Jesus with an adulterous woman, publicly shaming her and putting her sins on display. It would have been easy for Jesus to denounce the woman’s actions and make a statement about virtuous behavior. Instead, he “bent down and began to write on the ground with his… Read More Lenten Reflection Series: Compassion Over Condemnation
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