Nicholas Kristof has an important, powerful new article and video on the humanitarian impact of climate change. You can watch the video here: And here are some highlights from the article: Climate change, disproportionately caused by carbon emissions from America, seems to be behind a severe drought that has led crops to wilt across seven… Read More Kids Are Starving to Death Because of Climate Change
Hearing the cries of babies as he was speaking, Pope Francis encouraged mothers to breastfeed any hungry babies, as he spoke in the Sistine Chapel. Channel 4 News has the video:
In his homily for the Feast of the Epiphany, Pope Francis draws a stark contrast between the attitudes of the Magi and Herod, offering lessons for today: Longing for God draws us out of our iron-clad isolation, which makes us think that nothing can change. Longing for God shatters our dreary routines and impels us… Read More Longing for God vs. Herod’s Fearful Culture for “Winners”
Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has a new article at The Nation: Over the past half-century, many strains of Christianity have seen a “privatization of religious experience and discourse.” Ever since, Christians on the right have been attempting to reverse this process, whether by invoking a past in which some aspects of traditional Christian thought defined… Read More Harvey Cox and the Future of the Christian Left
On Fox News, Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale argues that Republicans still don’t have a serious plan to replace Obamacare and that two things are needed for any adequate alternative: affordability and universality of coverage. You can watch the full clip here:
At US Catholic, Stephen Schneck writes: It is long past time for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to speak out against the evil of today’s racism. The “alt-right” white nationalist racism that surged alongside the political campaigns of 2016 is an evil that the church in America cannot ignore. After endorsing candidate… Read More The US Bishops Must Denounce Alt-Right Racism
Here are our ten most popular Pope Francis quotes from 2016, as featured in our Quote of the Day series: “There is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future.” “Do not be afraid! God is great, God is good, and we all have something good inside us.” “A faith incapable of… Read More Top 10 Pope Francis Quotes from 2016
