[This post by Eric Sundrup, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post, where the author is an Associate Editor] Facebook got something right. When it comes to our love lives… “It’s complicated.” Whether gay or straight, they’re fraught with tensions and vulnerabilities and, frankly, they’re often quite messy. Our feelings and our identities are tied… Read More French Bishops On Love and Gay Marriage
A fight is brewing in New York, and women’s social equality is going to be the first casualty. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a 10-point Plan that is to be the Women’s Equality Act. Now let’s take a look at his 10 points: Protect a Woman’s Freedom of Choice by Enacting the Reproductive Health Act Achieve… Read More Cuomo Holding Women’s Equality Hostage for Abortion
French President Francois Hollande received a hero’s welcome last weekend as he visited Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu, which French and Malian forces liberated from rebels and Islamist militants. The jury is still out on the merits and risks associated with external military intervention, but with widespread local support and international backing, the French-led mission… Read More Hollande hailed as Mali’s Savior
The politics of Downton Abbey: Down with the patriarchy! by Melinda Henneberger (The Washington Post) Melinda Henneberger muses over the success of the television show Downton Abbey and takes issue with some who claim that its popularity is due to a nostalgic yearning for the “classy” job creators of the aristocracy. As Henneberger points out,… Read More Weekly Rewind
Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans has joined together with sports officials, the mayor, and the police chief of the Crescent City to address the issue of human trafficking in a public service announcement, as the city prepares to host tomorrow’s Super Bowl. It is refreshing to see a bishop taking such a public… Read More Pre-game Huddle on Human Trafficking
During the fiscal fiascos of the past couple years, both parties have seemed to enjoy seeing how close they can get us to the precipice without falling into the abyss. Then, upon reaching a deadline, rather than solve the problem they kick the can a little further down the road and impose yet another arbitrary… Read More Budgeting as if we were all responsible for all
This weekend at the annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life at Georgetown University, Millennial editor Robert Christian and I represented Democrats for Life of America and presented on the pro-life movement within the Democratic Party. It may have largely been due to the plain curiosity that such a movement actually exists (“Isn’t Pro-life Democrat something… Read More Pro-life Democrats at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life
