via the NY Times: Like many people who enjoy their work, the Rev. Jacques Hamel did not want to stop. At 85, he was well past retirement age, but he kept in shape and kept on going — baptizing infants, celebrating Mass and tending to parishioners in St.-Étienne-du-Rouvray, the working-class town in Normandy where he… Read More ISIS Terrorists Murder Beloved French Priest

Kristen Day and Charles Camosy write about the Democratic Party’s extreme abortion plank in the LA Times: The abortion plank in the 2016 Democratic platform effectively marginalizes the voices of 21 million pro-life Democrats. It means the party that is supposedly on the side of justice for the vulnerable no longer welcomes those of us who #ChooseBoth;… Read More The Fight for a Big Tent Democratic Party

Last Tuesday at the RNC, the Daily Beast reported that former University of Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz went on an anti-immigrant tirade. In his speech, Holtz lamented the “invasion” of immigrants into the United States, harped on the differences between the immigrant “you” and the American “me”, and demanded immigrants attempt to better… Read More Hey Coach, Immigrants Made America Great

Millennial editor Robert Christian is quoted extensively in a recent CNA article by Matt Hadro and Adelaide Mena, sharing his reaction to the Republican National Convention as a millennial Catholic and pro-life activist: “For a party that portrays itself as the party of religious values, the approach they are outlining this week has little connection… Read More Where Were the Values at the Republican National Convention?

Millennial writer Daniel DiLeo has a new article at Political Theology Today. He writes: “Father God, in the name of Jesus, Lord we’re so thankful for the life of Donald Trump. We’re thankful that you are guiding him, that you are giving him the words to unite this party, this country, that we together can… Read More Divisive Partisan Prayer and a Better Role for Faith in the Public Square

The prospect of Donald Trump as President of the United States is the greatest threat to free democracy on the planet today. His consistent praise of dictators and refusal to condemn anti-democratic crackdowns should be troubling to anyone who supports the norms and institutions of American democracy. Would he curtail the freedom of the press?… Read More Donald Trump is a Threat to Free Democracy

via Jacob Lupfer: The platform Democratic convention delegates will adopt in Philadelphia later this month will be more pro-choice than ever before, ceding even less to Americans who oppose abortion rights or have moral concerns about the procedure. Upon learning that the Platform Committee called for eliminating the Hyde Amendment, a legislative procedure that generally… Read More Pro-life Democrats Hit Back at Democratic Platform’s Extremism on Abortion