Check out these recent articles from around the web: I got pregnant. I chose to keep my baby. And my Christian school humiliated me. by Madeline Runkles: “My school could have made an example of how to treat a student who made a mistake, owned up to it, accepted the consequences, and is now being… Read More Around the Web
In a series of tweets, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago wrote: The president’s misguided decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord does not diminish our responsibility to care for the planet. Environmental stewardship is a global issue and requires a spirit of cooperation, not the national individualism sadly displayed yesterday. Climate change is real.… Read More Cardinal Cupich Knocks Trump’s ‘Misguided’ Climate Move as Moral Failure
The night before the election, the Republican candidate for Montana’s lone congressional seat, Greg Gianforte, body slammed the Guardian’s political reporter Ben Jacobs, who was trying to get Gianforte to comment on the CBO’s score of the American Health Care Act and captured the entire altercation on an audio tape. Unsurprisingly, a number of prominent… Read More Machismo Madness is Damaging American Politics and Our Society
Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces, Chairman of the USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace, has issued the following statement (via the USCCB): “The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is on record supporting prudent action to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change. Our Conference of Bishops has vigorously promoted the teaching… Read More US Bishops to Trump: Don’t Abandon the Paris Agreement
Pope Francis: “Everyone has something to give to society; no one is excluded from contributing to the good of all.”
Millennial writer Christopher White profiles Steve Schneck at Crux: With that in mind, economics, immigration, and poverty became the three pillars of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies. “I’m especially proud of where I think we really contributed to these conversations both in the Church and in American public life in general,” Schneck… Read More Christopher White Profiles Steve Schneck
At first glance, the term “whole life” can conjure up numerous different feelings, depending on the context. There are those that believe it’s just another euphemism for the right-wing anti-abortion mob; there are those that see it as another movement in the Christian community that won’t actually take us anywhere. I believe it to be… Read More Why Young People Should Embrace the Whole Life Movement
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