Millennial writer Christopher White has a new article at Crux. He writes: The Church in the United States today is made up of almost fifty percent of people of color. This diversity should be celebrated and welcomed-and it should also be accompanied by an aggressive commitment to fostering reconciliation as a necessary condition toward promoting… Read More In a Time of Racial Despair, the Church Must Speak up
via Vatican News: Before all else, I would restate my conviction that a world economic system that discards men, women and children because they are no longer considered useful or productive according to criteria drawn from the world of business or other organizations, is unacceptable, because it is inhumane. This lack of concern for persons… Read More Pope Francis: Reject Inhumane Forms of Globalization
In his remarks at the US Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements, Bishop Robert McElroy described what he views as the fundamental political question of our age and explains where Catholic Social Teaching stands on the matter: The fundamental political question of our age is whether our economic structures and systems in the United States… Read More The Fundamental Political Question: Increasingly Unfettered Capitalism vs. An Economy That Respects Human Dignity
At the US Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements, Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego delivered a strong message: President Trump was the candidate of disruption. He was the disrupter, he said. Well now, we must all become disrupters. We must disrupt those who would seek to send troops into our streets to deport the… Read More Bishop Robert McElroy: Now We Must All Become Disrupters
Stephen Colbert appears to have found his groove at the Late Show. In the video below, he tears apart Donald Trump’s unhinged press conference. While self-loathing progressives and mushy moderates worry that comedians mocking Trump’s flagrant ignorance and evisceration of democratic norms is somehow undermining their farcical, one-sided attempts at generating dialogue with people who… Read More Stephen Colbert Offers Intellectual and Moral Clarity in Response to Trump
via the AP: The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press. The 11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far… Read More Trump May Mobilize 100,000 National Guard Troops to Round Up Unauthorized Immigrants
Pope Francis has sent a powerful letter to the participants of the US Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements. Here are some highlights: For some time, the crisis of the prevailing paradigm has confronted us. I am speaking of a system that causes enormous suffering to the human family, simultaneously assaulting people’s dignity and our… Read More “The Gutting of Democracies is Real”: Pope Francis Sends Strong Message to Grassroots Leaders
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