via American RadioWorks: In the New Deal era, educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune was called the “First Lady of the Struggle” for her influence on the Roosevelt administration on civil rights issues. On the eve of America’s entrance into World War II, she joined a panel discussion on NBC radio’s weekly public affairs broadcast… Read More Flashback: Mary McLeod Bethune on What American Democracy Means to Her
Nicole Perone is the National Coordinator of ESTEEM, a faith-based leadership formation program for Catholic students at colleges and universities across the United States. Millennial editor Robert Christian interviewed her on her work, young adults, and her faith. Why was ESTEEM (Engaging Students to Enliven the Ecclesial Mission) created? And how do you help young… Read More Millennial Catholic Interviews: Nicole Perone
Meghan Clark writes: In September, I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time. Studying and even teaching about the Shoah did not really prepare me to walk through the gates. Evil, pain, and horror filled the air as I stepped on ground made holy by the memory of the innocent victims brutally massacred there just over… Read More We Cannot Ignore Christian Antisemitism
via the Jesuit Post: We don’t become Jesus’s disciples all on our own. Angelo Canta, SJ, reflects on how God works through the people around us to help us draw closer to the Lord.
Two of the gravest threats the United States faces as a country are extreme individualism and the deterioration of our democratic norms and institutions. We see the costs of hyperindividualism in everything from our epidemic of loneliness to rising deaths of despair to the enactment of libertarian policies that undermine the common good and abandon… Read More Millennial of the Year 2023: Pete Davis
I sat in the pew waiting for my turn. My classmates sat spread out across the sanctuary in the quiet, dark church. Our teacher instructed us to reflect solemnly on our sins as we prepared to enter the confessional. I was 13 years old, a middle school student at a Catholic parochial school. I had… Read More My Catholic Comeback: Reflections of a Catholic Revert
Pope Francis: “A faith that does not trouble us is a troubled faith. A faith that does not make us grow is a faith that needs to grow.”
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