Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut spoke to civic and faith leaders at the Center for Christianity and Public Life’s inaugural summit, For the Good of the Public, on the spiritual crisis facing Americans, with so many experiencing angst, addiction, isolation, and a lack of purpose and meaning.  He calls for a renewal of policies and… Read More Senator Chris Murphy on the Spiritual Crisis Americans Face and a Better Way Forward

via the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life: Georgetown University hosted the Washington premiere of Join or Die, which tells the story of America’s civic unraveling through the journey of legendary social scientist Robert Putnam. The film analyzes America’s decades-long decline in community connections and offers examples and hope for a renewal of… Read More Isolation or Community? Solidarity in America

Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey writes: For over 130 years, popes have been watching economic, social, and technological “progress” and writing long papal documents in response to that progress – often criticizing the human cost of unbridled technological development. The first pope to do this, Leo XIII, defended factory laborers against the dehumanizing working conditions… Read More How to Understand Pope Francis’ Critique of Technocratic Thinking

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter by Anne Case and Angus Deaton: “There is a deep and persistent national malcontent: In a recent NBC News poll, nearly three-quarters of Americans surveyed said the United States is on the wrong track, and Gallup… Read More Around the Web

Protect Democracy policy advocate and Millennial guest writer Chris Crawford addressed the thousands of attendees at The Parliament of the World’s Religions conference in Chicago.

via NCR: In Laudate Deum, a new apostolic exhortation released last week, Pope Francis continued the conversation from his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.” Climate scientists said the science is sound, and theologians applauded Francis’ “laser focus” on the climate crisis in Laudate Deum…. Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami celebrated… Read More Pope Francis Challenges US Bishops to Sincerely Implement Their Position on Climate Change