This post by Eric Immel, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. A man pulls down his pants and takes a leak on the beach near Fullerton and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. He has streaks of pink running through his matted dark hair, black tattoos twisting around his arms, and a midriff-baring New… Read More Silent in the City: A Retreat in the Midst of Chaos
The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life recently held its first Salt and Light Gathering to bring together (relatively) young Catholics across the partisan and ideological spectrum who are working in government or on public policy in some other capacity. The event featured former presidential speechwriters Jon Favreau and Michael Gerson. Millennial editor… Read More Young Catholic Leaders as Salt and Light: An Interview with John Carr
President Obama–lambasting the Tea Party intransigence on immigration reform–announced today a new effort to fix the immigration system using his executive powers. Here’s the latest from CNN: According to the official, Obama will order a shift in security resources to border regions and call for additional action he can take “without Congress but within his… Read More President to use executive power on immigration reform
Millennial writer Brian Keaney has a new article at The Whole Life Democrat on the Democratic Party’s need to “bring back the big tent.” He writes: Today my party has a 30 vote deficit in the House, and it doesn’t look like we will be taking it back anytime soon. This is attributable to any… Read More Brian Keaney in The Whole Life Democrat
One summer while I was teaching at a Catholic-style Vacation Bible School, we were all in the church getting ready for daily Mass. The children were sitting quietly in the pews, alternating boy-girl-boy-girl, as we waited for Father to appear in the back of church, signaling the start of the opening song. But Father wasn’t… Read More A Big Red Heart
Another day, another inspiring act by Pope Francis. via The Daily Mail: Pope Francis stopped his car on a quiet country highway to kiss a young disabled women who was waiting by the side of the road with her family to see him pass. The leader of the Catholic Church had been returning from an… Read More Pope Francis Pulls Over His Car to Bless, Kiss Disabled Woman
Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at NCR on patriotism and the World Cup. He writes: Lincoln and King clearly had a deep, mature love of country. In the face of slavery and segregation, more cynical men would have laughed off the nation’s proclaimed ideals of “liberty and justice for all.” They, however, called… Read More Mike Jordan Laskey: Love and pride for your country should go deeper than the World Cup
