Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America by Linda Villarosa: “By the 1930s, women became a majority of the victims, sterilized in mental hospitals and prisons and under court orders. This shifting gender pattern resulted from a rising concern about the fitness to parent, with a… Read More Around the Web
Millennial writer Meghan Clark on today’s Gospel reading:
Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: Our habits shape a lot of our behavior, and it is hard to break bad habits and establish good ones. In You Are What You Love, James K.A. Smith explains why it is so hard to simply think our way to new ways of living. Smith argues that the end… Read More You Are What You Love
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Democracy advocates raise alarm after Supreme Court takes election case by Colby Itkowitz and Isaac Stanley-Becker: “Voting rights advocates expressed alarm Friday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court said it will consider a conservative legal theory giving state legislatures virtually unchecked power over federal elections,… Read More Around the Web
Tish Harrison Warren writes: The Dobbs Supreme Court decision recognized that there is no inherent right to abortion that flows from a commitment to liberty or autonomy, in part because “abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called ‘fetal life’ and what the law now before… Read More Whole Life Responses to the Overturning of Roe
via the Washington Post: Mark Shields, a onetime campaign manager who became one of Washington’s most respected political commentators, both as a syndicated columnist and as a genial liberal counterpart to several conservative sparring partners on the “PBS NewsHour,” died June 18 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 85…. The Wall Street… Read More Mark Shields (1937-2022)
via the Vatican: Our epoch and our culture, which reveal a worrisome tendency to consider the birth of a child as a simple matter of the biological production and reproduction of the human being, cultivate the myth of eternal youth as a desperate obsession with an incorruptible body. Because old age is — in many… Read More Pope Francis: Don’t Hide Wrinkles With Makeup
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