Millennial writer Nichole Flores to UVA Today: I think the beginning of Lent comes at an advantageous time for the church this year, on the heels of the Vatican Summit on the protection of minors. It is a time, built within the liturgical calendar, for lament, confession and acknowledgement of sin and the suffering caused… Read More Nichole Flores on Lent and Ella Baker

Anna Sutherland passed away last Wednesday. She wrote the terrific article “Conservatives Must Increase Economic Security Not Undermine It,” as a guest contributor for Millennial. Her work was smart, thoughtful, fair, fact-driven, precise, and rooted in a thoroughly Catholic worldview. We invited her multiple times to become an official writer for Millennial, viewing her as… Read More Anna Sutherland (1989-2019)

RepresentUs board member Jennifer Lawrence and Director of RepresentUs Josh Silver explain the dysfunction and legal corruption in the US system of government, how it can be fixed, and what the American people can do about it. The organization exists to bring together conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to pass powerful anti-corruption laws that… Read More Unbreaking America: A New Short Film with Jennifer Lawrence about Solving the Corruption Crisis with Political Reform

Here are some key points from Pope Francis’ Ash Wednesday homily: Lent opens with a piercing sound, that of a trumpet that does not please the ears, but instead proclaims a fast. It is a loud sound that seeks to slow down our life, which is so fast-paced, yet often directionless. It is a summons… Read More Pope Francis: Do You Live for Fire or Ash?

At Grotto, Mike Jordan Laskey writes: In his brief remarks, Pope Francis hit on the Catholic Church’s three traditional Lenten practices, which, in addition to fasting, include prayer and almsgiving (material support for those living on the margins). Fasting finds its meaning only if it’s connected to the other two practices. The Church certainly makes… Read More This Year, Try a More Integrated Approach to Lent

via the Vatican: God created the earth for the benefit of all, so that it would be a welcoming place where no one would feel excluded and where everyone could find a home. Our planet is rich in natural resources. And indigenous peoples, with their abundant variety of languages, cultures, traditions, knowledge and ancestral methods,… Read More Pope Francis: God Created the Earth for the Benefit of All

via the Vatican: Indeed, when we fail to live as children of God, we often behave in a destructive way towards our neighbours and other creatures – and ourselves as well – since we begin to think more or less consciously that we can use them as we will. Intemperance then takes the upper hand:… Read More Pope Francis Explains Lenten Fasting, Almsgiving, and Prayer