Millennial Catholic Ellen Koneck writes: It’s easy to confuse individuality with individualism—but if you’ve got a minute and you don’t mind, I’d like to strongly insist on the difference. Individuality, last month’s theme on Wit & Delight, is a gift: it’s all about the unique presence and perspective each person brings to the world. Your… Read More Individuality and Solidarity without Individualism

via the Vatican: The current pandemic and climate change, which have not only environmental, but also ethical, social, economic and political relevance, affect above all the life of the poorest and most fragile. In this way they appeal to our responsibility to promote, through collective and joint commitment, a culture of care, which places human… Read More Pope Commits Vatican to Net-Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

In an interview with America, whole life advocate John Carr says: I could not support President Trump for reasons of character, issues of racism and because of his efforts to divide the nation. I expressed my support for Vice President Biden because of the good he could do to bring the country together, help overcome… Read More How Should Pro-Life Biden Voters Approach His Presidency?

As Mark Shields steps away from his regular role on PBS NewsHour, his partner on the show, David Brooks, shares his thoughts: Mark, like many who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s — including Joe Biden — was imprinted with the idea that politics is a deeply noble profession, a form of service,… Read More David Brooks on Mark Shields

via Variety: Netflix has announced an original documentary series based on “Sharing the Wisdom of Time,” the award-winning book written by Pope Francis. The series will recount tales of elders and their lived experiences, told through the eyes of the younger generation. Women and men above the age of 70 from all around the world… Read More Netflix Announces New Documentary based on Pope Francis’ Book “Sharing the Wisdom of Time”

Brian Fraga writes: Trump and his Republican allies tried their best, though, to overturn the election results, filing dozens of lawsuits and pressuring officials in the battleground states Trump lost. The Trump campaign effectively had the help of the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm that heretofore has mainly been known to file… Read More Pro-Lifers Should Be Defending Democracy, Not Undermining It

At NCR, Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: Polarization did not end with the election of Joe Biden. The structural factors driving it remain in place. And this polarization is helping to fuel the enmity that has fractured any sense of unity among the people of the United States. It will not be easy to reduce… Read More Polarization Won’t Disappear But We Don’t Have to Submit to It