Chris Crawford writes: Some U.S. airports go a step further, providing specific restroom facilities for visitors to wash themselves before praying. This is especially relevant to Muslims, many of whom use ablution stations to wash their hands and feet before saying their prayers. Some non-Muslims also engage in ritual cleaning before praying. In Texas, these… Read More Texas Governor Greg Abbott Undermines Religious Liberty
via the Vatican: For it is the purity of the soul that, in Mary — as in us — by the grace of God, illuminates and transfigures the whole person, leading us to the glory of Heaven. The glorification of Mary, body and soul, teaches us that our true beauty does not lie in hiding… Read More Pope Leo: Let Us Reexamine Our Hedonistic and Consumerist Aesthetic Standards
Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” The struggle for freedom and justice requires courage, persistence, resilience, and faith. One of the greatest… Read More Those Who Are Just Must Be Kind
Two weeks before her death on March 30, 1990, US Catholic interviewed Sister Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., who said: I pray for the children, that they may be saved and sheltered and nourished. I pray for the church and all the members of the church that they may be empowered to do the work of the… Read More Flashback: The Prayers of Sister Thea Bowman
Fr. Patrick Gilger, S.J. writes: What the manosphere is, in other words, is a cacophony of conflicting answers—some encouraging, some infuriating—to the shared question of what it means to be a man today…. As the great philosopher Charles Taylor shows in his essay “Politics of Recognition,” people often felt that those prefabricated social identities distorted… Read More How the Church Should Respond to the Rise of the ‘Manosphere’
In a recent interview with Georgetown, Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, states: “Magnifica Humanitas” delivers on Pope Leo’s commitment to address the challenges and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence. The question is no longer whether AI will transform our world; that transformation is already underway. The real… Read More 5 Key Takeaways on ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ and Pope Leo’s Vision for AI
Anna Rowlands writes: Eleven years ago, Laudato Si’ called us to an urgent care for the earth and the poor, warning of a technocratic paradigm that measures human worth by utility. Today, Pope Leo makes clear that to overcome this paradigm and exercise this care for the earth and the poor requires us to urgently… Read More Reflections on Magnifica Humanitas
