via the White House: In his time, César E. Chávez witnessed a booming economy that served those at the top, but left millions of hardworking Americans behind — and he earned an enduring place in history by standing strong for the rights and dignity of the working people who built and sustained our Nation. Today,… Read More The White House on César Chávez Day
via NCR: The Catholic Church in the U.S. is failing in its capacity to respond to climate change and to live up to its mission to safeguard God’s creation, a theologian said this week during a lecture that spawned an act of contrition from the archbishop in attendance. Daniel DiLeo, an assistant theology professor at… Read More The Catholic Church in the US Has Failed to Address the Climate Crisis with the Urgency Required
Michael Sean Winters is an award-winning columnist at the National Catholic Reporter, where he often writes about the intersection of faith and politics. He is also the author of Left At the Altar: How Democrats Lost The Catholics And How Catholics Can Save The Democrats. In this episode, he talks about the 2020 and 2022 elections,… Read More Why Democrats Should Care About ‘Pope Francis Voters’
Preaching for Palm Sunday for Catholic Women Preach, Millennial writer Nichole Flores offers a reflection which names the words and feelings of woe and abandonment, but calls us to focus on words and actions of healing and mercy: “As we approach this Holy Week, May we find comfort in the words of mercy poured out… Read More May We Pour Out Mercy to Those Most in Need
via the Lumen Christi Institute: A conversation with Charles Taylor (McGill University), Patrizia Nanz (German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management), and Jason Blakely (Pepperdine University), moderated by Fr. Patrick Gilger, SJ. We are experiencing a crisis of democracy more powerful than anything seen in a generation: inequality continues at a galloping… Read More Fragile Democracy: Technocratic Takeover and Popular Renewal
Nearly 20 percent of US adults report leaving the workforce during COVID-19 because of caregiving responsibilities. What does COVID-19 mean for families and work? Watch panelists Julia Hanlon Rubio, Joanna Meyer, and Gabriel Salguaro discuss the deficiency that we see in family-friendly workplace policies in this Families Valued event, co-hosted by Millennial.
Sabrina Danielsen, Emily Burke, and Millennial writer Dan DiLeo write: Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese observes that since inauguration day, U.S. bishops’ conference press releases about Biden’s policies have been notably positive. However, our research about the disparities in how the bishops’ conference publicly discussed Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama leads us to anticipate that… Read More The US Bishops Criticized Obama More than Trump, and More Often by Name
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