Meghan Clark writes: Unpredictability is perhaps the linchpin of President Trump’s negotiating style and social media plan. He brags about it, and his base appreciates it as a mark of authenticity. Yet as I traveled around East Africa, I found that his unpredictability and crass belittling of others is fostering an existential anxiety among those… Read More Trump’s Presidency is Fostering Anxiety in Africa
via USCCB: Late last week, the Senate failed to achieve the 60 votes needed to move forward with debate on legislation to provide relief to Dreamers. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, USCCB President; Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, USCCB Vice President; and Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of Austin, Chairman of the USCCB Committee… Read More US Bishops Announce National Call-in Day for Dreamers
Pope Francis: “In the face of evil, suffering and sin, the only response possible for a disciple of Jesus is the gift of self, even of one’s own life, in imitation of Christ; it is the attitude of service.”
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami writes: Victims of usury are often the working poor and elderly on fixed incomes who when faced with a financial emergency seek a short-term loan….legal forms of usury survive, in a form of predatory banking, known as “payday loans.” Payday loans appear (and are marketed as) simple and straightforward help… Read More Archbishop Wenski: Regulate Payday Loans, Address the Sin of Usury
Christopher Hale writes: This “Ash Wednesday Valentine’s Day” gives us an opportunity to reconsider what love is, and what love is not. For a Christian, the rock band Boston got it right in 1976: Love is “more than a feeling.” We doubt the authenticity of the Kay Jewelers, empty-shelled love that marks the bourgeois celebration… Read More Ash Wednesday Valentine’s Day Can Remind Us of the True Nature of Love
Jordan Denari Duffner, an associate at Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative and the author of Finding Jesus Among Muslims: How Loving Islam Makes Me a Better Catholic appeared on Jesuitical two weeks ago to talk about her book and Catholic-Islamic dialogue. She was a panelist at last year’s How Catholics Should Respond to the Rise of the… Read More Three Interviews with Millennial Catholic Women
Pope Francis: “None of us is an island, autonomous and independent from others. We can only build the future by standing together, including everyone.”
