The Republican Party’s slide to the right reached an embarrassing point this week. On Thursday, House Republicans attacked food security by voting to pass deep cuts ($40 billion) in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Yesterday they voted to gut the Affordable Care Act, a policy that would leave millions without health insurance and result… Read More A Preferential Option against the Poor
Quick: name one of your favorite Christian axioms. You know, one of the “tweetable” maxims that has developed over the two thousand year history of the Church. Is it: Do to others whatever you would have them do to you? (Mt 7:12) What about: Our hearts are restless until they rest in you? (Augustine) Maybe:… Read More Melting Ice, Mending Creation: a Catholic Approach to Climate Change
The first extensive interview with Pope Francis since his election was published today in several Jesuit journals, including America here in the US. It’s long but great; read the whole thing. A quick scan led me to a few fantastic justice-related quotes. Here are five. “Discernment is always done in the presence of the Lord,… Read More Top Five Justice Quotes from the New Interview with Pope Francis
I’d like to think that when my now-brother-in-law asked me to stand by his side at his wedding it was to show off what a good looking family he was marrying into, and that my sister wanted me to offer the Prayers of the Faithful to display what an excellent speaking voice I have. Sadly,… Read More Fishers of Men and Women, Go to Those You Wish to Catch
Matthew Warner of The Radical Life has a brilliant article that describes the “12 Most Important Metrics for your Child’s (and your) Education”: Are they humble – not that they think less of themselves, but that they think of themselves less. Do they know how to be loved – are they humble and secure enough to be… Read More No Family Is an Island
Our lives are far too short and our missions far too great to let this spirit of violence flourish any longer in the United States. Robert Kennedy said it well: “But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the… Read More Brothers and countrymen once again
Millennial editor and co-founder Robert Christian has a new article in Real Clear Religion today on the pope and Syria that starkly contrasts with co-founder Christopher Hale’s recent take in the Washington Post. Christian argues: But as the world stands by idly while Syrians suffer and averts its eyes while body bags are filled with… Read More Robert Christian in Real Clear Religion: The Pope’s Responsibility to Protect
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