As the Church’s opposition to the death penalty grows stronger, a greater emphasis seems to be on the presumed inherent incompatibility of the death penalty with mercy toward the individual person facing execution, rather than its impact on justice or the common good. Depending on one’s theological views, this may be seen as a positive… Read More The Death Penalty is Fundamentally Unjust
Pope Francis: “How beautiful it is to see the smallest & most needy welcomed and cared for.”
Julio Quintana’s new film, The Vessel, chronicles the story of a small Latin American town a decade after the loss of almost 50 schoolchildren in a tsunami. Millennial writer Christopher White spoke with Quintana about his inspiration for the film and faith in an age of skepticism for Crux: The film is also steeped with… Read More Film and Faith in an Age of Skepticism
Discussions of privilege are ubiquitous on the left these days, and the desire to make ethical purchases is common not only among “bourgeois bohemians” but a growing number of those who recognize a religious imperative to engage in ethical consumption. While scholars, activists, and everyday people try to figure out how to operate in the… Read More Purchasing Recreational Drugs and Fueling Violence
John Allen writes, With Pope’s cardinal picks, Bernardin’s ‘seamless garment’ is back: Pope Francis on Sunday engineered what may prove to be a seismic shift in the Catholic hierarchy in the United States, elevating not one or two, but a full three new American cardinals seen as belonging to the centrist, non-cultural warrior wing of… Read More Pope Francis Sends Powerful Message with 3 New US Cardinals
via Vatican News: The theme chosen by Pope Francis for the XV General Assembly of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops taking place in October 2018 will be “Young people, faith and vocational discernment.”… Describing the theme “as an expression of the Church’s pastoral concern for the young,” the statement said the chosen topic follows on… Read More Pope Francis: Theme for the 2018 Synod Will Be on Young People
Pope Francis recently spoke about using prayer, rather than alcohol or other drugs, in response to spiritual desolation: Spiritual desolation is something that happens to all of us: it can be stronger or weaker … but that feeling of spiritual darkness, of hopelessness, mistrust, lacking the desire to live, without seeing the end of the… Read More Pope Francis on Overcoming Spiritual Desolation
