Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at NCR. He writes: The event included an awards ceremony in the middle of the afternoon, and the first prize was given to a leader of the parish’s Vietnamese community named Chinh Dinh. Chinh is a volunteer English as a second language teacher at Aquinas Center,… Read More This is What the Church Can Be
Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article at Crux. He writes: The cultural warrior Catholicism that favored political confrontation to personal engagement and partisan fighting to authentic dialogue has given away to a Catholicism that is willing to engage, encounter, and befriend anyone. Make no mistake: the Church will not, and cannot, compromise on… Read More Notre Dame Embraces the Francis Agenda
Millennial writer Christopher White has a new article at Crux. He writes: Fast forward to today, and we see another tragic commercialization of mothers that strikes at the heart of what it means to be a mom. The rise of the global industry of surrogate motherhood has forever changed the idea of motherhood, by slapping… Read More Be Wary of Surrogate Motherhood
Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article at Time. He writes: Biden and Boehner’s invitation to Notre Dame wasn’t without some controversy. Both have political positions that stand in profound contrast to the Church’s teachings, including Biden’s support for abortion rights and Boehner’s support for budget cuts for programs that serve the poor. Yet… Read More Joe Biden and John Boehner: Our Faith Inspires Political Compromise
via NCR: Pope Francis has announced he will create a commission to study the possibility of allowing women to serve as deacons in the Catholic church, signaling an historic openness to the possibility of ending the global institution’s practice of an all-male clergy…. The women religious, meeting with the pope as part of the triennial… Read More Pope Francis Calls for Commission on Women Deacons
In their campaigns for the presidency, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have held up stability as their preeminent goal for the Middle East and argued against efforts that would undermine autocracy in the region, even to the point of opposing the replacement of the Assad regime, which has committed mass slaughter and countless other… Read More Propping Up Autocracy Will Bring Neither Justice Nor Stability to the Middle East
Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for President and Hillary Clinton has math firmly on her side to win the Democratic nomination, the next six months of politics is going to be contentious if not outright ugly. Not just because we’re heading into an election that no one wants, but quite simply… Read More From the Francis Moment to the Francis Movement: Mercy is the Way Forward
