via Charlotte Cowles: Americans born between 1981 and 1996, the most educated and most diverse generation in U.S. history, were once considered harbingers of economic progress and promise. But now, even well into their careers, most of them lag behind the financial and familial strides of previous generations. By the time our parents (baby boomers,… Read More Millennials and the Decline of Middle Class Stability

via the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage: Why does humankind continue to be plagued by war? Catholic pacifists blame the just war tradition, which can be invoked to justify any war, and so must be jettisoned. In his book, Preventing Unjust War: A Catholic Argument for Selective Conscientious Objection, Roger Bergman argues that… Read More A Catholic Argument for Selective Conscientious Objection

Millennial writer Meghan Clark on today’s Gospel reading:

Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: Our habits shape a lot of our behavior, and it is hard to break bad habits and establish good ones. In You Are What You Love, James K.A. Smith explains why it is so hard to simply think our way to new ways of living. Smith argues that the end… Read More You Are What You Love

Tish Harrison Warren writes: The Dobbs Supreme Court decision recognized that there is no inherent right to abortion that flows from a commitment to liberty or autonomy, in part because “abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called ‘fetal life’ and what the law now before… Read More Whole Life Responses to the Overturning of Roe

via the Washington Post: Mark Shields, a onetime campaign manager who became one of Washington’s most respected political commentators, both as a syndicated columnist and as a genial liberal counterpart to several conservative sparring partners on the “PBS NewsHour,” died June 18 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 85…. The Wall Street… Read More Mark Shields (1937-2022)

via the Vatican: Our epoch and our culture, which reveal a worrisome tendency to consider the birth of a child as a simple matter of the biological production and reproduction of the human being, cultivate the myth of eternal youth as a desperate obsession with an incorruptible body. Because old age is — in many… Read More Pope Francis: Don’t Hide Wrinkles With Makeup