via the Georgetown Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life: Individualism too often defines our current social and political moment in the United States. It contributes to polarization, civic disengagement, and general apathy, and it has contributed to the weakening of democratic processes and norms. Especially after the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the… Read More Strengthening Community and Resisting Individualism
Millennial writer Meghan Clark writes: For Aristotle, true friendship is a relationship of honesty, acceptance, and mutuality. In a relationship among equals, true friends love and accept one another for their own sake. It is not about competition or networking but rooted in virtue wherein we will the good for the other person, regardless of… Read More Why We Should Care About the Friendship Recession
Pope Francis: “Every man, every woman, has our own beauty, we only have to learn how to see it, how to recognize it.”
Chris Crawford is a policy advocate at Protect Democracy and a founding board member of The Center for Christianity and Public Life (CCPL). Millennial editor Robert Christian interviewed him on his work, his faith, and democracy. Why should Catholics care about democracy? We should care about democracy because we are about human dignity; we believe… Read More Millennial Catholic Interviews: Chris Crawford
Pope Francis: “Terrorism and extremism do not help to reach a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, but fuel hatred, violence, revenge, and only cause each to other suffer. The Middle East needs a peace built on dialogue and the courage of fraternity.”
Pope Francis: “We need to retrieve our passion and enthusiasm, reawaken our desire to commit ourselves to fraternity. We need to once again risk loving our families and dare to love the weakest, and to rediscover in the Gospel the transforming grace that makes life beautiful.”
via the Vatican: The goal of any network is to “connect” people, to help them realize that they are part of something larger than themselves. Indeed, that is the stated aim of many social media platforms, and certainly much good takes place through these means of communication. Yet, we also need to be vigilant, for… Read More Pope Francis on Dehumanizing Social Media Trends
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