Quote of the Day
Samantha Power: “Every day you fight for a cause, speak out vs. injustice, or commit even a small act of kindness, you are changing some slice of the world.”
Samantha Power: “Every day you fight for a cause, speak out vs. injustice, or commit even a small act of kindness, you are changing some slice of the world.”
We recently highlighted Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe’s inclusion in the Time 100. Earlier this week, she went toe-to-toe with Stephen Colbert. Check out the full video below:
Cardinal Sean O’Malley: “Our striving for the common good in society is simply a logical corollary of our love of neighbor. Unjust structures and oppressive political and economic systems result when ethics and virtue are banished from the public square as irrelevant to building a just and humane society.”
Pope Francis: “In Jesus, love has triumphed over hatred, mercy over sinfulness, goodness over evil, truth over falsehood, life over death.”
Pope Francis: “If Christ were not raised, Christianity would lose its very meaning; the whole mission of the Church would lose its impulse, for this is the point from which it first set out and continues to set out ever anew.”
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