In Evangelli Gaudium and his other remarks on abortion, Pope Francis has embraced a whole life approach to the issue, linking it to other threats to human life and dignity. He sees it as a social justice issue that is deeply and gravely important, but not one that should drown out every other issue. Even… Read More Nothing New About Pope Francis’ Whole Life Approach
Pope Francis: “We need a society which measures its success on how the weak are cared for.”
Numerous pro-life organizations recently filed a friend of the court brief in the Supreme Court for an important case on the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, Young v. United Parcel Service. Among those organizations filing the brief was Democrats For Life of America (DFLA). Millennial editor Robert Christian, a senior fellow at DFLA, interviewed University… Read More Ending Discrimination Against Pregnant Women: An Interview with Thomas Berg
Pope Francis: “We must not be a Church closed in on itself, which looks at its navel, a self-referential Church, who looks at itself and is not able to transcend. Twofold transcendence is important: toward God and toward one’s neighbor.”
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Millennial writer Meghan Clark has a new article in US Catholic. She writes: Turn away from the new iPhone and toward your neighbor. This is the message of Pope Francis—to reject what he labels the “throwaway culture” in which not just possessions but people are disposable when a newer, flashier model appears. Instead of spiritual… Read More St. Vincent de Paul: Patron of the poor
Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article in Time Magazine. He writes: By choosing Cupich in his first major appointment to the United States, Pope Francis has signaled that the pastoral revolution that has marked his papacy will be institutionalized long after his tenure ends as the Bishop of Rome. So what exactly makes… Read More Pope Francis’s Winds of Change Cross the Atlantic
