Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey writes: For over 130 years, popes have been watching economic, social, and technological “progress” and writing long papal documents in response to that progress – often criticizing the human cost of unbridled technological development. The first pope to do this, Leo XIII, defended factory laborers against the dehumanizing working conditions… Read More How to Understand Pope Francis’ Critique of Technocratic Thinking

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter by Anne Case and Angus Deaton: “There is a deep and persistent national malcontent: In a recent NBC News poll, nearly three-quarters of Americans surveyed said the United States is on the wrong track, and Gallup… Read More Around the Web

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.

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

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

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