Preaching for Palm Sunday for Catholic Women Preach, Millennial writer Nichole Flores offers a reflection which names the words and feelings of woe and abandonment, but calls us to focus on words and actions of healing and mercy: “As we approach this Holy Week, May we find comfort in the words of mercy poured out… Read More May We Pour Out Mercy to Those Most in Need
via the Lumen Christi Institute: A conversation with Charles Taylor (McGill University), Patrizia Nanz (German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management), and Jason Blakely (Pepperdine University), moderated by Fr. Patrick Gilger, SJ. We are experiencing a crisis of democracy more powerful than anything seen in a generation: inequality continues at a galloping… Read More Fragile Democracy: Technocratic Takeover and Popular Renewal
Nearly 20 percent of US adults report leaving the workforce during COVID-19 because of caregiving responsibilities. What does COVID-19 mean for families and work? Watch panelists Julia Hanlon Rubio, Joanna Meyer, and Gabriel Salguaro discuss the deficiency that we see in family-friendly workplace policies in this Families Valued event, co-hosted by Millennial.
Sabrina Danielsen, Emily Burke, and Millennial writer Dan DiLeo write: Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese observes that since inauguration day, U.S. bishops’ conference press releases about Biden’s policies have been notably positive. However, our research about the disparities in how the bishops’ conference publicly discussed Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama leads us to anticipate that… Read More The US Bishops Criticized Obama More than Trump, and More Often by Name
Christopher Hale writes: The American Rescue Plan that Biden signed into law last week is perhaps the most popular piece of major legislation in modern American history. A poll released earlier this month suggested that even 59% of Republicans support the legislation. While the bill didn’t receive a single Republican vote, Republicans are already touting… Read More Republicans Rightly Love Joe Biden’s Covid Relief Bill
Meghan Clark writes: On February 28, President Joe Biden released an unprecedented pro-union video message unequivocally supporting workers’ right to unionize and collectively bargain. “The choice to join a union is up to the workers—full stop,” Biden reiterated that the law guarantees this without interference from employers. It is not the first time that the president has… Read More Justice as Participation: Building Back Better by Supporting Workers and Rebuilding Democracy
via United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: What began as a peaceful protest calling for a democratic government has led to a decade of crimes against humanity and profound suffering for the Syrian people, primarily at the hands of the Assad government. More than 500,000 Syrian civilians have been killed, and more than 12 million—half the… Read More US Holocaust Museum on the Ten Year Anniversary of the Syrian Uprising
