Pope Francis: “Education and employment, access to welfare for all are key elements for the development and the fair distribution of goods; for the achievement of social justice; for belonging to society and participating freely and responsibly in political life.”
Millennial editor Robert Christian has a new article at Crux. He writes: The economic pressures on middle-class and working-class Americans are both the product of family breakdown and one of its principal causes. The minimum wage is nowhere near a living wage. Many working-class people live paycheck to paycheck, fearful that a single mishap will… Read More It’s time for a preferential option for the family
The Catholic Church is changing, and it’s not just because of Pope Francis. After Vatican II introduced a profound theology of the laity, lay people have been discovering that their purpose is more than to “pray, pay, and obey.” In fact, the Vatican II understanding of the laity taking their place primarily in the secular… Read More Why We Should Formally Recognize the Vocation of Lay Ecclesial Ministry
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Why ‘left v. right’ is a category mistake for the Church in Africa by John Allen: “Ask African Catholics for their views on the idées fixes of Western conversation – female priests, gay rights, birth control, Communion for the divorced and remarried, and so on –… Read More Around the Web
Just as those first rays of sun illuminated the empty tomb that resurrection day, may You, God, come and light my soul. Drive out the darkness of doubt and warm the stone of my heart. Work your miracle in me: Help me to truly rise with Christ today and everyday. Take this weary person and… Read More Lenten Reflection Series: Christ is Alive. Alleluia!
Millennial writer Marcus Mescher has a new post for the Dorothy Day Center for Faith & Justice. He writes: It’s so easy to get caught up thinking that my value lies in what I do, that others will only care for me if I perform a certain way or that my life is measured by… Read More A New Way of Seeing – and Being
Perhaps the most radical Christian belief is a belief in the equal and innate dignity and worth of every single person. It subverts every cultural, historical, and biological form of unjust prejudice. St. Paul articulates it clearly in saying, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not… Read More Lenten Reflection Series: That We All Might Be One
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