One of the most vigorous debates among pro-life millennials concerns the best way to reduce the high rates of abortion that currently exist in the United States. Pro-life progressives have criticized the lobbying and lawmaking strategy of conservatives, one which has focused since the early 1980s on incremental measures to gradually choke off access to… Read More Reducing Abortions: Laws or Welfare?
South Sudan faces its sternest challenge yet, as a political struggle in the upper echelons of power threatens to engulf the world’s newest nation in a full-scale civil war with ethnic overtones. Fighting appears to have intensified even though rival factions recently signed a cease-fire, intended to suspend the five-week long hostilities, which has claimed… Read More South Sudan at a Crossroads: World’s Newest Nation at Risk
In the Letter to the Romans, St. Paul is concerned with what causes scandal within the Christian community. Today we are not so concerned with eating meat prepared in connection with Roman sacrifice; instead, sex is the primary preoccupation of the day. Sex is often at the heart of the aptly named TV show Scandal,… Read More Truly Scandalous: Fired for Choosing Life
In November, Pope Francis issued a stirring call in Evangelii Gaudium for the Church to rediscover her “missionary impulse.” “If the whole Church takes up this missionary impulse,” he wrote, “she has to go forth to everyone without exception. But to whom should she go first? When we read the Gospel we find a clear… Read More Prioritizing the Poor in Global Health
Last night, as millions were watching the Superbowl, U2 launched their new single “Invisible.” Everything about this song is what fans like myself have come to expect from U2 – both the song and its release pushing us to see those whom we otherwise might not notice (and raising some money for the Global Fund to… Read More There is No Them, Only Us
One of the central paradigms of Catholic thought is best communicated in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 classic The Little Prince. A children’s book, the whole story can be summed up in the words of the fox to the little prince: “One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”… Read More Pragmatic Solutions Not Ideology Will End the Violence of Poverty
Last week, Pope Francis released his message for the 48th World Communications Day, “Communication at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter.” Since 1967, most of these messages (and every one since 1996) have been dated for release on January 24th, the feast day of Saint Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists. They… Read More Who is My Digital Neighbor?
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