via Vatican News: L’Osservatore Romano and Vatican News interviewed Bernice Albertine King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. regarding her dedication to equality, the culture of peace and the value of nonviolence. A passionate human rights activist like her father, and president of the King Center in Atlanta, Bernice Albertine feels there is a strong… Read More Bernice King on Pope Francis, Her Father, and Living Together As Brothers and Sisters

In a recent appearance on Fox News, Raymond Arroyo, EWTN’s news director and the host of The World Over, tried to justify the treatment of Native Americans during the “Trail of Tears”.  Arroyo—a frequent guest of Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program—made the outlandish claim that we should not criticize the way Andrew Jackson’s administration treated… Read More Raymond Arroyo’s Defense of the Trail of Tears Ignores History

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In The Tablet, Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: The letter describes a global battle between “children of light” and “children of darkness”. The children of darkness are an “absolute minority” that has infiltrated the media, economy and governments in order to seize power and maximise their wealth. Viganò explains to Trump that they are on… Read More Viganò’s letter to Trump, Conservative Bishops, Priests, and Laypeople, and 2020

Olga Khazan writes: Though they might seem in the prime of their life, recent research shows that Millennials—people born from roughly 1981 to 1996—are more likely to die prematurely from suicide and drug overdoses than previous generations were. Perhaps that’s to be expected, given the turmoil Millennials have faced in recent years. After scrambling up… Read More The Millennial Mental Health Crisis

Jason King writes: Last year at Creighton University, more than 200 people gathered for the first of a series of conferences aimed at deeper daily integration of the messages of “Laudato Si’, on Care of Our Common Home.” The participants arrived in Omaha from many corners of Catholic life, among them parishes, high schools, congregations of religious… Read More Laudato Si and the US Catholic Church

via Matt Hadro: Pro-life advocates must speak out in defense of all human life–including issues of racial justice and deaths at the hands of police, a prominent pro-life lawmaker told CNA Wednesday. Louisiana state Senator Katrina Jackson told CNA in a June 3 interview that the pro-life movement “has made great strides in becoming more… Read More Racial Justice is a Pro-Life Issue