via USCCB: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, from the College of Cardinals. Pope Francis has also imposed on Cardinal McCarrick suspension ad divinis and directs him to observe a life of prayer and penance in seclusion until the completion of the canonical process. via Crux: The… Read More Pope Francis Accepts Cardinal McCarrick’s Resignation as Cardinal
Democrats for Life of America recently hosted a conference on the need for a bigger, more inclusive Democratic Party. Millennial editor Robert Christian, our 2017 Millennial of the Year Michael Wear, and millennial Catholic Anna Keating spoke at the conference. Here are some highlights of the conference: .@ProLifeDem: @demsforlife wants a party that represents *all*… Read More The Case for a Big Tent Democratic Party
Here are twenty valuable quotes from Pope Francis’ Gaudete et Exsultate: We are never completely ourselves unless we belong to a people. That is why no one is saved alone, as an isolated individual. (6) We are all called to be holy by living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we… Read More 20 Valuable Quotes from Gaudete et Exsultate
Heidi Schlumpf has a new article that asks if US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is whole life, featuring the responses of a few whole life Catholic commentators. She notes that “Catholics are not monolithic, some will be happy with Kavanaugh, while others have serious concerns.” This is, of course, true. Catholics don’t fit into… Read More Evaluating Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh through a Whole Life Prism
via the Montana Standard: The attendance of four Roman Catholic priests from Montana at President Donald Trump’s political rally in Great Falls Thursday has created a social media firestorm and apparently incurred the displeasure of the priests’ superiors in the church. The four, who were seated near the front of the rally, wore their clerical… Read More Bishop Comments on Imprudence of MAGA Priests at Trump Rally
Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville writes: The Social Justice magisterium is particularly subject to dismemberment into lesser, purely political parts if we do not sustain a concerted effort to connect the teaching to the person of Christ from whom it flows…. Pope Francis speaks of the “throwaway culture”, as a description that encompasses all that… Read More Radical Care Must Replace Our Throwaway Culture
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Daniel Misleh, and Millennial writer Daniel DiLeo write: Pope Francis recently convened oil and gas corporation executives and investors to share some hard truths about fossil fuels and catastrophic climate change. In doing so, the Holy Father extended the Christian tradition of witnessing challenging truths to the public and influential members of society.… Read More Pope Francis Tells Oil and Gas Execs to Address Climate Change
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