Here are some of the highlights from this year’s message: “Jesus asks us to follow him and to travel with him along the path of love, the path that alone leads to eternal life.” “We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the… Read More Top 10 Quotes from Pope Francis’ 2014 World Youth Day Message
Millennial editor Robert Christian has a new article in Time, in which he argues that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Opportunity Plan can help pro-choice and pro-life advocates find common ground. He writes: The plan calls for a fully self-sustaining paid family and medical leave program, an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, universal… Read More Robert Christian in Time: Why Pro-lifers Should Join Forces with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
While North Korea’s global reputation is shaped by its repression and insularity, the eccentricity and absurdity of Kim Jong-Il may have distracted many of us from the true depth of the regime’s cruelty and brutality, which persists to this day under his son Kim Jong-un. A recent report by the United Nations highlights just how… Read More Spotlight on North Korea’s Brutal System of Repression
Pope Francis met victims of human trafficking and senior police chiefs from 20 countries and praised their efforts to fight human trafficking, which he described as a “crime against humanity.”
Pope Francis was recently interviewed by a group of young people from Belgium. Here are five of the best quotes from the interview: “For me, the heart of the Gospel is about the poor.” “We’re all brothers and sisters. Believers, non-believers or whether belonging to this or that religious confession, Jews, Muslims… we’re all brothers… Read More Top 5 Quotes from Pope Francis’ Recent Interview with Young People
Millennial values are neither as virtuous as their staunchest defenders claim nor as problematic as their fiercest critics find them. Like all previous generations, our generation’s commitment to the common good is neither non-existent nor complete. However, on matters of economic justice, specifically those regarding the plight of the poor, there are some promising signs.… Read More Positive Signs among Millennials on Economic Justice
Check out the video below on Kwibuka20. Here is some background information on it: Kwibuka means ‘remember’ in Kinyarwanda, Rwanda’s language. It describes the annual commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. More than one million Rwandans died in the hundred days of the genocide. It was one of human history’s darkest times. Twenty… Read More Rwanda: Remembering the past, embracing the future
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