When the threat of COVID is behind us and we’re allowed to meet new people again, I know one of the first topics of conversations will be: “What happened to you during the pandemic?” So far, I have heard a range of life experiences, from the challenging to the traumatic, everything from getting laid off… Read More Even During a Pandemic, We Can Serve Others in Our Communities
There has been a growing chorus of Catholic priests and bishops who have become outspoken in their disdain for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, despite their shared Catholic faith. Some are blatantly partisan, while others are clearly incensed by his position on abortion and willing to set aside the basic civility applied to politicians who… Read More Bishops and Priests: Please Stop with the Petty, Selective Attacks on Joe Biden
This year, Catholics have important and difficult decisions to make up and down the ballot that will impact the trajectory of our country in the years and decades ahead. No matter what decisions each of us makes when casting our ballots, we all have a stake—and responsibility as Christians—in ensuring that every American who is eligible… Read More In an Election Year with Unprecedented Challenges, Catholics are Called to Protect Voting Access
What does it look like to be loved entirely? To give yourself, to be received, to be embraced, with all of your wounds and all of your beauty? The desire for a love like this permeates the life and work of James Baldwin. For a Black man born in Harlem during the Great Depression, the… Read More Love, Racism, and Alienation: James Baldwin’s ‘Conundrum of Color’ in 2020
Where did I—and you—learn Communion through human relationships? I learned it in Oakville, Missouri at Queen of All Saints Catholic Church: on Catholic Youth Council (CYC) sports teams, at De Smet Jesuit High School, and through my family. I was grateful for these loving communities. I still am. They inspired many moments of joy and… Read More Growing Up White in White Spaces: Incomplete Glimpses of Trinitarian Communion
Sean Callahan is the President & CEO of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Millennial editor Robert Christian recently interviewed him on his background, CRS, and the impact of the novel coronavirus on their work: Could you talk a little about your background—growing up,… Read More Helping Catholics Lead the Way on Hunger: An Interview with Sean Callahan of Catholic Relief Services
Our Predicament In these past few months, which have unpropitiously—or, perhaps, fortuitously and providentially—included the holiest days of the Christian year—the Triduum—American Catholics have found themselves in the unusual predicament of having regular access to Mass unavailable to them. Even in typing out that overlong sentence, it becomes clear how narrowly—geographically and historically speaking—widespread access… Read More Second Line Remembering: Toward a Theology of Zoom Liturgies
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