Amnesty International has released a report on one site (Saydnaya prison) where top Syrian officials approved the torture and execution of thousands of Syrians. The Syrian Grand Mufti’s complicity highlights the utter foolishness of those “pro-peace” Catholics that spread his propaganda about desiring peace in 2013, even though he had threatened the West with suicide… Read More Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’
As nativism and xenophobia grow stronger in the United States, Fr. James Martin explains what the Bible says about refugees, migrants, and foreigners and that the responsibilities we have as Christians are clear.
Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego on our post-truth era: First, “see clearly the situation.” One of the most striking elements of “Laudato Si” is his clear and bold analysis of the empirical realities that threaten the Earth which is our common home. “Seeing the situation clearly” is the whole foundation for that encyclical. It… Read More Alternative Facts and the Dictatorship of Relativism
Last week, Pope Francis spoke at the International Forum on Migration and Peace: Rejection is an attitude we all share; it makes us see our neighbor not as a brother or sister to be accepted, but as unworthy of our attention, a rival, or someone to be bent to our will” (Address to the Diplomatic… Read More Pope Francis: Welcome, Protect, Promote, and Integrate Migrants
Last Thursday, Millennial co-hosted its first event with the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at Catholic University. The topic was ‘How Catholics Should Respond to the Rise of the Alt-Right.’ Dr. Maria Mazzenga of Catholic University provided introductory remarks, which can be read in full here: Exclusionary Catholic Americanism is defensive, adopts a… Read More How Catholics Should Respond to the Rise of the Alt-Right
Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at NCR: I wonder how the country might change if we Christians doubled down on our Lenten observance this year — not just as individuals focusing on our own spiritual growth in preparation for Easter, but as whole faith communities inspired by the radical, self-giving love… Read More We Need Lent Now More Than Ever
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Trump Is Damaging Press Freedom in the U.S. and Abroad by Joel Simon: “In President Trump’s carpet bombing of the news media, it is not just the United States’ global reputation that is collateral damage. Rather, it is the brave journalists on the front line who… Read More Around the Web
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