Quote of the Day
Pope Francis: “The Gospel calls us to live outside our comfort zone, because anyone who follows Jesus loves the poor and the lowly.”
Pope Francis: “The Gospel calls us to live outside our comfort zone, because anyone who follows Jesus loves the poor and the lowly.”
Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: If we thought the pandemic might transform American life by giving us a new appreciation for quiet evening strolls or less-booked schedules, our collective return to normal has perhaps put an end to such hopes. In high schools across the United States, kids are back to packing their resumes, desperate… Read More Rethinking Notions of Success and Merit
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Free Speech (or Not) at Stanford by David Leonhardt: “Over the past few years, some American universities have seemed to back away from their historical support for free speech. Hamline University in Minnesota effectively fired a teacher who showed a 14th-century painting of the Prophet Muhammad… Read More Around the Web
via Catholic Women Preach: Preaching for Easter Sunday, Nichole M. Flores offers a reflection on witnessing and testifying as Easter practice: “As we enter into this season of rejoicing, how can we create space for the practices of witnessing and testifying in our daily lives? How might these practices help us to attend to our… Read More Witnessing and Testifying as Easter People
In an interview with the Washington Post, Monsignor John Enzler, the CEO of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington for the last 12 years, says: At Catholic Charities, we have taken a different tact in the last six or seven years, which is: We want to not just feed people but to find a… Read More Beyond a Band-Aid Approach to Poverty
via NCR: San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy sharply criticized the Eternal Word Television Network, the conservative Catholic U.S. media conglomerate, in an interview with Spanish magazine Vida Nueva published on March 24. Vida Nueva asked McElroy about the decision of newly installed Bishop Fernando Prado of San Sebastián, Spain, to ban diocesan television from carrying… Read More Cardinal McElroy: Diocese Won’t Publish EWTN Content