One of the themes of Pope Francis’ pontificate seems to be encouraging people to feel more welcome when it comes to receiving the sacraments. He has attacked those who refuse to baptize children whose parents are not married. He has encouraged people to go to confession, even if we haven’t been in a long time.… Read More Pope Francis Weds 40, Including Cohabitants

Millennial writer Daniel DiLeo has a new article at Political Theology Today. He writes: In his 1990 World Day of Peace Message, St. John Paul II recognized that “the ecological crisis is a moral issue” (emphasis in original). Guided by this awareness, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI asserted in his encyclical Caritas in veritate that “the… Read More Speculation to Advocacy: Reducing Carbon Pollution

The Boston Globe’s new Catholic website Crux had its launch event on Thursday, a discussion on the papacy of Pope Francis. The event featured Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, John Allen, Mary Ann Glendon, Hosffman Ospino, and Millennial editor Robert Christian. Margery Eagan moderated the panel. The full video of the event can be viewed… Read More A Pope for the 21st Century

Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has the final post in this week’s Millennial at Distinctly Catholic. She writes: So libertarianism mis-imagines two fundamental poles of its consideration, at least by Catholic lights: both the human person and property. By imagining the right of property to precede the common good of humankind, libertarian philosophy departs sharply… Read More Millennial at Distinctly Catholic: Catholicism and libertarianism clash over property and the common good

Millennial writer and copy editor Sarah Christian has a reflection on the enduring lesson of 9/11 in the latest Millennial at Distinctly Catholic. She writes: So, as members of a global community — one human family — we have to consider what we can do to protect the vulnerable. As citizens, we must push our… Read More The enduring lesson of 9/11: We are one human family

Millennial writer Meghan Clark contrasts Catholic thinking and libertarianism in the latest Millennial at Distinctly Catholic. She writes: To understand what Pope Francis says on poverty, inequality and exclusion, you have to first understand this deep unity of the one human family, of our belonging to each other and our standing together before God. This… Read More Millennial at Distinctly Catholic: Solidarity is our word