Via Rome Reports: He explained that Christ gave the disciples this prayer, along with the Beatitudes, as teachings that represent an authentic revolution. POPE FRANCIS “This is the revolution of the Gospel. Where the Gospel is, there is revolution. It is as if Jesus said, ‘Continue on, you who carry in your heart the mystery… Read More Where the Gospel is, There is Revolution
Cardinal Joseph Tobin released the following statement on President Trump’s speech on Tuesday night: I listened with deep disappointment to the dehumanizing words used to describe our immigrant sisters and brothers. These men, women and children are neither numbers, nor criminal statistics, but flesh and blood people with their own stories and histories. Most are… Read More Cardinal Tobin Rips Trump’s Dishonest, Dehumanizing Anti-Immigrant Speech
Jacob Lupfer writes: No candidate who favors ending abortion in the U.S. can win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. Party leaders are more stridently supportive of unrestricted abortion rights than they have ever been. Abortion-rights activists exert unprecedented power over the party, and as a result even abortion-skeptical Democrats have been decimated over the… Read More Why a Pro-life Democrat Should Run in 2020
Millennial Catholic Christine Emba writes: According to Falwell’s creative theology, Christ “went out of his way to say that’s the earthly kingdom, I’m about the heavenly kingdom,” and loving your neighbor as yourself only applies to the latter. The man whose institutional mission includes being “a voice for the voiceless” then meditated on the uselessness… Read More Some Trump Apologists Have Traded Christianity for a Church of Trump
via Vatican News: It is clear, though, that relationships within the international community, and the multilateral system as a whole, are experiencing a period of difficulty, with the resurgence of nationalistic tendencies at odds with the vocation of the international Organizations to be a setting for dialogue and encounter for all countries. This is partly… Read More Pope Warns against Rising Nationalism, Defends Universal Human Rights and Migrants
Our 2018 Millennial of the Year is anti-bullying activist, author, motivational speaker, and role model to countless young people Lizzie Velasquez. Lizzie is on the front lines in the battle against the throwaway culture, championing love, kindness, solidarity, and the fundamental worth and dignity of every single person. We live at a time when it’s… Read More Millennial of the Year 2018: Lizzie Velásquez
In his 2019 World Day of Peace message, Pope Francis says: We know that the thirst for power at any price leads to abuses and injustice. Politics is an essential means of building human community and institutions, but when political life is not seen as a form of service to society as a whole, it… Read More Political Life Can Become an Outstanding Form of Charity
