via Reuters: Pope Francis said he was willing to tell U.S. President Donald Trump in person that it is wrong to build border walls and appeared to warn him not to resume a policy of separating families. In a wide-ranging television interview with Mexico’s Televisa aired on Tuesday, the pope also shrugged off criticism from… Read More Pope Denounces Trump’s Proposed Wall and Separating Families

NBC’s Dasha Burns looks at life as a pro-life Democrat:

Pope Francis at a recent ‘Meeting with Finance Ministers from Various Nations’: We live at a time when profits and losses seem to be more highly valued than lives and deaths, and when a company’s net worth is given precedence over the infinite worth of our human family. You are here today to reflect on… Read More Pope Francis Calls for Immediate Action on the Climate Crisis

via CNS: For young men and women, competitive sports like soccer not only help strengthen their bodies, but also help strengthen their souls in creating last bonds of friendship through teamwork, Pope Francis said. Speaking to 6,000 young people at a gathering co-sponsored by the Italian Gaming Federation of Soccer May 24, the pope encouraged… Read More Pope Francis: Soccer Offers an Alternative to Isolation and Self-Centeredness

via PBS NewsHour: While one phrase of Syria’s brutal nine-year civil war may be concluding, the systemic forced disappearance, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Syrians has not ceased. Amna Nawaz talks to Anne Barnard of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly The New York Times about the staggering inhumanity of Bashar… Read More More Than 100,000 Have Entered Assad’s Prisons — And Never Returned

A new pledge from the Whole Life Movement that many Millennial readers may be interested in exploring and signing (via Whole Life: Pro-life Democrats, Progressives, and Feminists): The Whole Life Movement is committed to: A comprehensive approach to abortion that includes legal protections for unborn children and adequate support for pregnant women and families so… Read More The Whole Life Pledge

Kelly Sankowski writes: “In my life, Christus Vivit affirms that the dreams and desires I have as a young adult Catholic are the ways in which God is calling me to deeper relationship with Him – my vocation and my holiness are not just things that unfold outside of myself and my experience, but are… Read More Millennial Catholics on Christus Vivit