Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Compassion Gap by Nicholas Kristof: “There is an income gap in America, but just as important is a compassion gap. Plenty of successful people see a picture of a needy child and their first impulse is not to help but to reproach.” Arizona’s SB 1062… Read More Around the Web (Part 2)
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Jesus and the Bullied by Brian Pinter: “Jesus, by his own example and preaching, empowers us to move beyond being bystanders, to embrace and shield, through bold but loving action, those suffering under the yoke of bullying and taunting.” New Philippines cardinal calls for church to… Read More Around the Web (Part 1)
Pope Francis, on bishops: “The Church doesn’t need apologists for their own agendas or crusaders for their own battles, but humble and faithful sowers of the truth.”
Pope Francis: “Jesus did not come to teach us good manners, how to behave well at the table!…Christ came to save us, to show us the way, the only way out of the quicksand of sin, and this way is mercy.”
Millennial editor Robert Christian argues that the consistent life movement should be more inclusive toward supporters of just war theory and the Responsibility to Protect, highlighting its failure to offer a realistic approach to ending the mass atrocities in Syria. Is it really pro-life to do nothing while thousands are slaughtered each month, while barrel… Read More Robert Christian in Ethika Politika on the Consistent Life Movement
Cardinal Orlando Quevedo: “Today, the Church has riches, institutions. But I would like to think that the only way the Church can redeem these resources as well as its institutions would be to place them at the service of justice and of the poor for the sake of the kingdom of God.”
Pope Francis: “The gravest deprivation experienced by the aged is not the weakening of one’s physical body, nor the disability that may result from this. Rather, it is the abandonment, exclusion and deprivation of love.”
