Christine Emba writes: No more wild-eyed claims that 9/11 was a hoax, that the government was behind the Sandy Hook shooting or that the Parkland kids are “crisis actors.” No more spittle-flecked speculation about “white genocide” or how chemtrails are used for population control. Now, if you want to learn more about how the “New… Read More Why Banning Alex Jones from Social Media Sites Isn’t a Problem
Millennial Catholic Michael Bayer has a new article in Catholic News Service’s “In Light of Faith” series: — Authenticity: Young people have access to more information than our ancestors dreamed possible. We are inundated by ceaseless digital interactions and immersed in a sea of competing ideas…. And we hunger for a church that can name… Read More Three Traits Young People Crave from the Church
Pope Francis: “Care for the environment is always a social concern as well. Let us hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”
via Vatican News: Only by listening to the simplest requests of people and by placing ourselves next to their concrete existential situations, can we be listened to when speaking of higher values”. We are instruments, he said, of God’s love for humanity that is “hungry for bread, for freedom, for justice, for peace, and above… Read More Pope Francis: We Must Not Be Indifferent to the Cry of Hunger
Pope Francis: “Each one of us is precious; each one of us is irreplaceable in God’s eyes.”
via the Vatican: The Supreme Pontiff Francis, in the audience granted on 11 May 2018 to the undersigned Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has approved the following new draft of no. 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, arranging for it to be translated into various languages and inserted… Read More Catechism Revised: Death Penalty is Inadmissible, Church Committed to Worldwide Abolition
All day, every day, I hang out with about 55 Salvadoran teenagers. I’m a teacher, and I work with immigrant students in a neighborhood full of pupuserias and cumbia. Inside the walls of our bright, beautiful schools, the kids make it clear—they miss El Salvador. Their families aren’t clinging to Salvadoran culture because they want… Read More Romero Remains Relevant
