via Vatican Radio: Pope Francis on Friday morning paid an emotional visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum, the site of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp where more than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were put to death during the Second World War. Prior to his visit to the camp, the Pope decided he… Read More Pope Francis Visits Auschwitz

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Fr. James Martin, SJ, Kerry Weber, and Thomas Awiapo discuss the Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable:

Millennial writer Christopher White has a new article at Crux. He writes: While I’m content to let all parties involved exercise prudential judgment as they see fit, the fact remains that a sizable number of Catholics and other Christians are doing some deep soul searching as to how best to navigate the 2016 elections. Maybe the… Read More Renewal from the Ground Up: Never Trump, Never Hillary, Never Withdrawal

via the NY Times: Like many people who enjoy their work, the Rev. Jacques Hamel did not want to stop. At 85, he was well past retirement age, but he kept in shape and kept on going — baptizing infants, celebrating Mass and tending to parishioners in St.-Étienne-du-Rouvray, the working-class town in Normandy where he… Read More ISIS Terrorists Murder Beloved French Priest

Kristen Day and Charles Camosy write about the Democratic Party’s extreme abortion plank in the LA Times: The abortion plank in the 2016 Democratic platform effectively marginalizes the voices of 21 million pro-life Democrats. It means the party that is supposedly on the side of justice for the vulnerable no longer welcomes those of us who #ChooseBoth;… Read More The Fight for a Big Tent Democratic Party

Last Tuesday at the RNC, the Daily Beast reported that former University of Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz went on an anti-immigrant tirade. In his speech, Holtz lamented the “invasion” of immigrants into the United States, harped on the differences between the immigrant “you” and the American “me”, and demanded immigrants attempt to better… Read More Hey Coach, Immigrants Made America Great

Millennial editor Robert Christian is quoted extensively in a recent CNA article by Matt Hadro and Adelaide Mena, sharing his reaction to the Republican National Convention as a millennial Catholic and pro-life activist: “For a party that portrays itself as the party of religious values, the approach they are outlining this week has little connection… Read More Where Were the Values at the Republican National Convention?