Pope Calls on International Community to Act in Combating Climate Change

In a message to participants of the COP22 climate change meeting that took place in Marrakech, Pope Francis highlighted the “serious ethical and moral responsibility to take action and implement last year’s Paris climate-change agreement”: “The current situation of environmental degradation – Pope Francis said – which is strongly connected to the human, ethical and… Read More Pope Calls on International Community to Act in Combating Climate Change

Millennial

The US Church’s Failure to Stand Against Sexual Assault

A month before the election, a 2005 video of Donald Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women on an Access Hollywood taping surfaced. As I listened to Donald Trump joke about how his celebrity allowed him to assault women without consequence, I felt sick to my stomach.  Here we had a presidential candidate actively boasting about… Read More The US Church’s Failure to Stand Against Sexual Assault

Meghan Clark

Trump’s Pro-life Plan Includes Millions More Abortions

I support legal protection for the lives of unborn children. A comprehensive, whole life approach to abortion and the defense of human life should include such a commitment. The strategy of electing candidates who promise to appoint or confirm strict constructionist conservative Supreme Court justices is deeply flawed in that regard. Donald Trump confirmed this… Read More Trump’s Pro-life Plan Includes Millions More Abortions

Robert Christian

How Sexism and the Desire to Blow the System Up Led to Trump’s Victory

So the election is over, and Donald Trump will be president. What do we make of what transpired?  There are many takeaways from this election, but I’d like to reflect on just a couple of points. The first is that sexism and misogyny are alive and well in the United States of America.  Let us… Read More How Sexism and the Desire to Blow the System Up Led to Trump’s Victory

Daniel Petri