Pope Francis: Welcome, Protect, Promote, and Integrate Migrants

via Pope Francis’ Message for the 105th World Day of Migrants and Refugees: The most economically advanced societies are witnessing a growing trend towards extreme individualism which, combined with a utilitarian mentality and reinforced by the media, is producing a “globalization of indifference”. In this scenario, migrants, refugees, displaced persons and victims of trafficking have… Read More Pope Francis: Welcome, Protect, Promote, and Integrate Migrants

September 29, 2019September 29, 2019 Millennial

Jesuits Call for Action in Nicaragua

via Catholic News Service: The Society of Jesus has urged Latin American countries — working “through international diplomacy” — to “take all the necessary measures to rescue democracy in Nicaragua and hold the current regime responsible for the crimes it has committed.” In a lengthy statement, “Crimes that demand justice: an urgent call to the… Read More Jesuits Call for Action in Nicaragua

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 Millennial

Why Young Men Kill

It’s time we started talking about our young men, about why they become mass shooters, serial bombers, and homegrown terrorists. If any other demographic had demonstrated such a dangerous capacity for violence, we certainly would have probed deeper by now. 98% of mass shooters are men—and most are disaffected young men, whether American, Syrian, French,… Read More Why Young Men Kill

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 Guest Contributor

Cardinal Cupich on the Toxic Environment Giving Rise to Xenophobia, Racism, and Populist Nationalism

Cardinal Blase Cupich writes: We as a people are divided. Our world is plagued by global terrorism and the re-emergence of nationalism, threatened by climate change, the exploitation of limited resources, the exclusion of many people who are left homeless, or forced to migrate owing to wars and privation. As a result, we have become… Read More Cardinal Cupich on the Toxic Environment Giving Rise to Xenophobia, Racism, and Populist Nationalism

September 24, 2019June 10, 2020 Millennial

Facing a Climate Crisis, Is It Wrong to Have Children?

Gracy Olmstead writes: Many would-be parents in the millennial generation worry that bringing a child into this world might, in its effects, serve as a choice for more consumption, waste and damage to the planet. Others wonder whether the children conceived now might face a fate somehow worse than nonexistence in future years — a… Read More Facing a Climate Crisis, Is It Wrong to Have Children?

September 23, 2019September 25, 2019 Millennial

Pope Francis’ Video Message to the UN Climate Action Summit

via the Vatican: The problem of climate change is related to issues of ethics, equity and social justice. The current situation of environmental degradation is connected with the human, ethical and social degradation that we experience every day. This forces us to think about the meaning of our models of consumption and production, and the… Read More Pope Francis’ Video Message to the UN Climate Action Summit

September 23, 2019September 25, 2019 Millennial

What Does the Bible Say About…?

What does the Bible say about hell, divorce, sex, forgiveness, and more? In the season finale of Jesuit Autocomplete, Fr. Eric Sundrup, S.J., and Fr. Paddy Gilger, S.J., answer more of the internet’s most searched questions:

September 19, 2019September 25, 2019 Millennial