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
Check out these recent articles from around the web on racial justice and reform: Policing in America is broken and must change. But how? by NY Times: “The killing of George Floyd in police custody shows how far the country has to go; the resulting protests have pushed the Minneapolis City Council to take the… Read More Around the Web: Articles on Racial Justice and Reform
Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Last Anointing by Elizabeth Dias: “The country is facing a deeply personal crisis of spirit, not only of health or economics. A virus has forced a reckoning with the most intimate questions we have, questions not only about how we live, but also about how… Read More Around the Web
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
