Stephanie H. Murray writes: There is a cultural weight dangling from the yoke of modern American parenthood — one that is probably beyond the government to alleviate. The very same logic of self-sufficiency that rationalizes our anemic family policies — “Don’t have kids if you can’t afford them” — underpins our social expectations for children,… Read More American Culture vs. Parenting
Tish Harrison Warren writes: For a religious holiday, All Saints’ Day is surprisingly earthy. It reminds me that for all of us — so-called religious or non-religious people alike — faith and spirituality are shaped in profoundly relational ways. No one is a “freethinker.” None of us come to what we believe on our own.… Read More A Reminder on All Saints’ Day
via the Vatican: I also want to refer to a silent pandemic that has been afflicting children, teenagers and young people of every social class for years; and which I believe, in this time of isolation, has spread further still. It is the stress of chronic anxiety, linked to various factors such as hyperconnectivity, disorientation… Read More Pope Francis on Building ‘Bridges of Love’
Millennial writer Daniel R. DiLeo, Sabrina Danielsen, and write Emily E. Burke: The publication of Laudato Si’ was a landmark moment in the fight against climate change. Secular environmentalists were encouraged to see such a prominent global leader devote one of his most powerful tools to their cause. Many American Catholics hoped the encyclical would inspire… Read More Most US Bishops Silent on Climate Change, New Study Shows
Check out these recent articles from around the web: We Weren’t Happy Before the Pandemic, Either by Esau McCaulley: “The pandemic has disabused us of the illusion of time as a limitless resource and of the false promise that the sacrifices we make for our careers are always worth it.” This Is Our Chance to… Read More Around the Web
via the Vatican: In a video message, Pope Francis thanked them for their “enthusiasm” in carrying out “the mission to give a new soul to the economy”. He highlighted the urgent need to change the present economic paradigm, as the world struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, which, he noted, has dramatically “amplified the deep inequalities”… Read More Pope Francis: Give a New Soul to the Economy, Tackle Inequality
In an interview with America, Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego says: In recent years, major figures and programs within EWTN have reflected with ever greater prominence a systematic oppositional tone to many of the major priorities of this pontificate, often accompanied with caricature and scorn. The continual attention to the worldview of Archbishop [Carlos… Read More Bishop McElroy on the Disunity and Distortions Coming from EWTN
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