Being a news junkie today is to be hit daily by an avalanche of bad news, a lot of it sensationalistic. News of mass shootings, deportations of the parents of young children, and the rise in hateful speech – so casually spewed – often overwhelm me. That is not to say that I am unaware of… Read More A Message of Hope in the Desert of Fear
In recent years, we have seen the narrowing of the American middle class and diminished social mobility as economic inequality balloons, the intensification of consumerism, the rise of an opioid crisis, the breakdown of family stability among working class Americans, the resurgence of ugly forms of populism, and the general fraying of communal bonds. Many… Read More We Need a Revolution in Solidarity
Millennial‘s Daniel Petri interviews Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng on the death of his friend and fellow activist Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and the future of the Chinese democracy and human rights movement: Read more about Liu Xiaobo’s life and death (via NY Times): Liu Xiaobo, the renegade Chinese intellectual who kept… Read More Chen Guangcheng on the Death of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo
It might seem odd to ask how Rod Dreher’s book The Benedict Option relates to the Catholic Church’s teachings on what it means to be a member of the laity. After all, the book is directed at Christian laypersons, proposing a plan of life for laypersons in a post-Christian society and discussing issues such as… Read More Vatican II Calls the Laity to Go Beyond the Benedict Option
As an American, it is difficult at times to think beyond the right/left dichotomy that permeates our economic and political landscape. This often makes it difficult for Catholics on either side of the aisle to understand what the Church teaches about the ownership and use of property. As we should always strive to be Catholics… Read More Catholic Social Teaching, Private Property, and the Redistribution of Wealth
It was while reading a bedtime story one night that journalist and TED Talk presenter Carl Honoré realized that he had lost his grip on time. He was skipping pages of the story in order to get back to work more quickly, and his son, who knew every word by heart, was having none of… Read More Sowing the Seeds of Eternity
At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast earlier this month, Vice President Mike Pence proudly proclaimed that “American Catholics have an ally in President Donald Trump.” But which Catholics really do have an ally in President Trump? Is he an ally of Catholic women who want to have families? Is he an ally of the unborn? … Read More Trump is No Ally to Catholics
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