Check out these recent articles from around the web: This May Be The Most Effective Anti-Poverty Program In America by Jonathan Cohn: “Child First is a ‘home visiting’ program, which means staff members work with families mostly in their homes rather than in office settings, sometimes meeting as frequently as three or four times a… Read More Around the Web
Pope Francis: “A truth-filled love is, in fact, the basis on which to build the peace that today is especially desired and necessary for the good of all. It allows one to overcome dangerous fanaticisms, conflicts for the possession of resources, migrations of biblical proportions, the enduring wounds of hunger and poverty, human trafficking, injustice,… Read More Quote of the Day
Millennial writer Meghan Clark has a new article at US Catholic. She writes: For Christians, widespread poverty and inequality is scandalous, even though no one calls Olivia Pope to handle it. Echoing his predecessors, Pope Francis frequently admonishes us that poverty is a scandal. He laments that when people with no homes die of exposure… Read More This is What Real Scandal Looks Like
Millennial editor Robert Christian has a new article in Church Life. He writes: Republicans who reject economic libertarianism are subject to primary challenges from the right, financed by those who see politics as a transactional process to serve their own interests. Democrats who reject social libertarianism often lack the funds to compete in primaries against… Read More A New Progressive Era for the Second Gilded Age
Big news via John Allen at Crux: In what is likely to be hailed as major step toward accountability for Catholic bishops who mishandle sexual abuse allegations, the Vatican has announced the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph. The announcement came Tuesday in a brief statement in the Vatican’s daily news bulletin,… Read More Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, Who Failed to Report Abuse, Resigns
Pope Francis: “More weight and more authority must be given to women.”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: The papal bull: Misericordiae Vultus by Michael Sean Winters: “Sadly, for too long the Church itself has failed to give mercy the centrality of focus it deserves and which Jesus Christ requires. This is the core of the Pope Francis Revolution. It is exhilarating to witness.”… Read More Around the Web
