via PBS NewsHour: While one phrase of Syria’s brutal nine-year civil war may be concluding, the systemic forced disappearance, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Syrians has not ceased. Amna Nawaz talks to Anne Barnard of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly The New York Times about the staggering inhumanity of Bashar… Read More More Than 100,000 Have Entered Assad’s Prisons — And Never Returned
A new pledge from the Whole Life Movement that many Millennial readers may be interested in exploring and signing (via Whole Life: Pro-life Democrats, Progressives, and Feminists): The Whole Life Movement is committed to: A comprehensive approach to abortion that includes legal protections for unborn children and adequate support for pregnant women and families so… Read More The Whole Life Pledge
Kelly Sankowski writes: “In my life, Christus Vivit affirms that the dreams and desires I have as a young adult Catholic are the ways in which God is calling me to deeper relationship with Him – my vocation and my holiness are not just things that unfold outside of myself and my experience, but are… Read More Millennial Catholics on Christus Vivit
Michael Gerson writes: Donald Trump’s reelection would entrench a particularly vicious brand of know-nothingism, advocated with tireless arrogance, combined with resolute ignorance, enabled by steadfast sycophancy…. In most of Europe (and Latin America), an alternative would be obvious: a movement known as “Christian democracy.” This approach emerged under mainly Catholic influence in the 19th century.… Read More Is There a Political Home for Those Who Seek Solidarity Not Sectarian Supremacy?
Bishop Shelton Fabre of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, chair of the US Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, writes: Two leading Louisiana legislators, one Democrat and one Republican, have sponsored bipartisan legislation to repeal the death penalty in Louisiana. The Legislature should pass this measure, and the governor should sign it. For Catholics and many… Read More Bishop Fabre: Louisiana Should End the Death Penalty
via Reuters: A close aide to Pope Francis has drawn the ire of Italy’s anti-immigrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini by climbing down a manhole to restore electricity to hundreds of homeless people living in an occupied building. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, 55, whose job is to distribute the pope’s charity funds, went to the disused state-owned… Read More The ‘Pope’s Robin Hood’ Illegally Restores Electricity for the Homeless
Here are some highlights from Pope Francis’ speech earlier this month on the prevailing economic model: The precarious condition of our common home has been the result largely of a fallacious economic model that has been followed for too long. It is a voracious model, profit-oriented, shortsighted, and based on the misconception of unlimited economic… Read More Pope Francis Denounces Voracious, Shortsighted Economic Model Premised on Unlimited Growth
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