Jacob Lupfer writes: No candidate who favors ending abortion in the U.S. can win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. Party leaders are more stridently supportive of unrestricted abortion rights than they have ever been. Abortion-rights activists exert unprecedented power over the party, and as a result even abortion-skeptical Democrats have been decimated over the… Read More Why a Pro-life Democrat Should Run in 2020
Millennial Catholic Christine Emba writes: According to Falwell’s creative theology, Christ “went out of his way to say that’s the earthly kingdom, I’m about the heavenly kingdom,” and loving your neighbor as yourself only applies to the latter. The man whose institutional mission includes being “a voice for the voiceless” then meditated on the uselessness… Read More Some Trump Apologists Have Traded Christianity for a Church of Trump
via Vatican News: It is clear, though, that relationships within the international community, and the multilateral system as a whole, are experiencing a period of difficulty, with the resurgence of nationalistic tendencies at odds with the vocation of the international Organizations to be a setting for dialogue and encounter for all countries. This is partly… Read More Pope Warns against Rising Nationalism, Defends Universal Human Rights and Migrants
In his 2019 World Day of Peace message, Pope Francis says: We know that the thirst for power at any price leads to abuses and injustice. Politics is an essential means of building human community and institutions, but when political life is not seen as a form of service to society as a whole, it… Read More Political Life Can Become an Outstanding Form of Charity
via the Vatican: What is the universal message of Christmas? It is that God is a good Father and we are all brothers and sisters. This truth is the basis of the Christian vision of humanity. Without the fraternity that Jesus Christ has bestowed on us, our efforts for a more just world fall short,… Read More Pope Francis: Without Fraternity, Efforts for a More Just World Fall Short
via the AP: During his homily Monday, Francis lamented that many people find their life’s meaning in possessions when the biblical story of Christ’s birth emphasizes that God appeared to people who were poor when it came to earthly possessions, but faithful. “Standing before the manger, we understand that the food of life is not… Read More Pope Francis on Greed and Hunger
via the Washington Post: As Syria’s government consolidates control after years of civil war, President Bashar al-Assad’s army is doubling down on executions of political prisoners, with military judges accelerating the pace they issue death sentences, according to survivors of the country’s most notorious prison. In interviews, more than two dozen Syrians recently released from… Read More Assad Regime Using Mass Murder to Empty Prisons of Political Opponents
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