Category: Blog

Catholics Should Accept Chen Guangcheng’s Challenge to Americans

Last Wednesday, Chinese dissident (and my colleague at the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies) Chen Guangcheng gave an impassioned speech denouncing tyranny, highlighting the brutality of China’s Communist regime, and challenging Americans to support freedom, democracy, and human rights. It is a challenge not only to Americans, but also to Catholics, especially those… Read More Catholics Should Accept Chen Guangcheng’s Challenge to Americans

Robert Christian

Nichole Flores in America: Seeing migrant women through the eyes of Christ

Millennial writer Nichole Flores has a new article in America that addresses the issue of sexual violence in the agriculture industry, along with other threats to human dignity and rights: “The rape of migrant women is but one violation of workers’ rights and human dignity common in U.S. agricultural fields. Undocumented women and men are… Read More Nichole Flores in America: Seeing migrant women through the eyes of Christ

Millennial

Don’t Fall for Misdirection: It’s about Homelessness, Inequality, Unemployment and Poverty not the Debt

As I drove home last night, slowly moving down the Van Wyck Highway Service Road, I watched as an older homeless man weaved through traffic begging for help. I pulled out what cash I had accessible but he moved over to the next lane – I did not know how to signal safely for him… Read More Don’t Fall for Misdirection: It’s about Homelessness, Inequality, Unemployment and Poverty not the Debt

Meghan Clark

Nichole Flores Quoted in “With New Pope, a More Open Catholic Church?”

Millennial writer Nichole Flores is quoted in a new Religion & Politics essay by Michael O’Loughlin, a millennial Catholic who writes for Religion News Service. O’Loughlin writes, “Flores, who is Mexican-American, said issues important to the Hispanic community, including hunger, poverty, and education, have been marginalized, but noted with enthusiasm how they are now being… Read More Nichole Flores Quoted in “With New Pope, a More Open Catholic Church?”

Millennial