via NCR: Pope Francis has announced he will create a commission to study the possibility of allowing women to serve as deacons in the Catholic church, signaling an historic openness to the possibility of ending the global institution’s practice of an all-male clergy…. The women religious, meeting with the pope as part of the triennial… Read More Pope Francis Calls for Commission on Women Deacons
In their campaigns for the presidency, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have held up stability as their preeminent goal for the Middle East and argued against efforts that would undermine autocracy in the region, even to the point of opposing the replacement of the Assad regime, which has committed mass slaughter and countless other… Read More Propping Up Autocracy Will Bring Neither Justice Nor Stability to the Middle East
Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for President and Hillary Clinton has math firmly on her side to win the Democratic nomination, the next six months of politics is going to be contentious if not outright ugly. Not just because we’re heading into an election that no one wants, but quite simply… Read More From the Francis Moment to the Francis Movement: Mercy is the Way Forward
Check out these recent articles from around the web: The moral challenge Trump poses by Michael Sean Winters: “The nation faces a moral question this election that is as simple as it is severe: Are we to permit white supremacist thinking and language back into the mainstream of American politics, or not?” California’s smoking age… Read More Around the Web (Part 2)
Check out these recent articles from around the web: A Mockery of Justice for the Poor by John Pfaff: “Yet despite this constitutional guarantee, state and county spending on lawyers for the poor amounts to only $2.3 billion — barely 1 percent of the more than $200 billion governments spend annually on criminal justice. Worse,… Read More Around the Web (Part 1)
Yesterday, Pope Francis was presented with the Charlemagne Prize by the City of Aachen, or Aix-La-Chapelle, an honor given annually to individuals for their extraordinary commitment to European unity and solidarity. In honoring a Pope who has been very vocal and outspoken in his criticism of the European Union, the award committee reminds us that… Read More It is Time for Europe’s “Pope Francis Moment”
One of the most exciting mediums for gathering news and opinion is Twitter, the online social networking service. If you follow the right people, it’s a never-ending flow of information and analysis from professional pundits and accredited journalists from around the world. In another era, so much public discourse among competing reporters would be unthinkable,… Read More Is Twitter the Best Place for Catholic Debates?
