How Having a Child with Down Syndrome Transformed Caterina Scorsone’s Understanding of Love

Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: On the Motherly podcast, actress Caterina Scorsone of Grey’s Anatomy describes how she came to realize that she was loving everyone, including herself, for “absolutely the wrong reason.” “I was loving people for their external qualities and not for their essence,” she said. She had believed that she loved her… Read More How Having a Child with Down Syndrome Transformed Caterina Scorsone’s Understanding of Love

Quote of the Day

Pope Francis: “Prayer frees us from the burden of worldliness, and teaches us to live joyfully, to distance ourselves from what is superficial, in an exercise of true freedom.  Prayer draws us out of our self-centredness, from being reclusive in an empty religious experience; it leads us to place ourselves, with docility, in the hands… Read More Quote of the Day

Pope Francis: “We Hear Speeches That Resemble Those of Hitler in 1934”

via La Stampa: Your Holiness, you hope that “Europe might once again be the dream of the Founding Fathers.” What are your expectations? “Europe cannot and must not break apart. It is a historical, cultural as well as a geographical unity. The dream of the Founding Fathers had substance because it was an implementation of… Read More Pope Francis: “We Hear Speeches That Resemble Those of Hitler in 1934”

Alt-Catholics’ Connections to the White Nationalists of the Alt-Right

Franklin Strong writes: On April 30th, far-right Catholic author Taylor Marshall and his cohost, author Timothy Gordon, posted a YouTube video as part of their regular #TnT chat series called “Why do Secularists and Mohammedans Unite?” The plan, Marshall explained, was to speak about what they saw as a strange alliance between “politically correct secularists”… Read More Alt-Catholics’ Connections to the White Nationalists of the Alt-Right

When Opposing the President Isn’t Political, But About Survival

President Trump will visit El Paso today. Following the recent shooting in El Paso, Americans and the media are rightly focused on the overdue reform of gun laws. But while the attack in El Paso was surely enabled by the failure of politicians to enact even a modicum of reform, it is categorically different. For… Read More When Opposing the President Isn’t Political, But About Survival