Check out these recent articles from around the web: Grace Enough by Brendan Busse: “At their core, the Spiritual Exercises are about the personification of love, not the possibility of it. The possibility of love, or its impossibility, paralyzes us. But the personification of love, the vulnerable, wounded, beaten love that I saw in the… Read More Around the Web
via Vatican Radio: “It is necessary to take every possible measure to ensure protection and defense to migrant children,” Pope Francis said, “as well as their integration,” into host societies. “These, our brothers and sisters, especially if unaccompanied, are exposed to many dangers,” the Pope said – dangers that include being taken and sold into… Read More Pope Francis: Protect and Defend Migrant Children
Cardinal Blase Cupich has a new article at the Chicago Tribune: Like all Americans, DACA enrollees want to contribute to our society. They strive as much as any American to be teachers, doctors, lawyers, firefighters, police officers, architects, computer scientists, engineers, members of the armed forces — and, yes, elected officials. But most of all… Read More Cardinal Cupich: It’s Immigrants Who Have Made America Great
Bishop Robert McElroy: “The Church must work in the coming months with unions, workers, the elderly, and the poor to counter the growing imperialism of market mechanisms within American public life.”
For all who contribute through prayer and fraternal charity to restoring full ecclesial communion in service of the challenges facing humanity.
Millennial writer Christopher White has a new article at Crux. He writes: Kicking off this year’s National Migration Week, which began on January 8th, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops stated that this is an opportunity to “create a culture of encounter where citizens old and new,… Read More The Church Must Continue to Defend Immigrants
This past week I buried my father-in-law. It was a hard week but also beautiful, and it reaffirmed my conviction about what I had written a few days before. In a Christmas Day post, I recollected how throughout history God has used seemingly insignificant people and events to bring about the most wondrous transformations–liberation from… Read More A Humble, Transformative Life Remembered
