via the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life: Georgetown University hosted the Washington premiere of Join or Die, which tells the story of America’s civic unraveling through the journey of legendary social scientist Robert Putnam. The film analyzes America’s decades-long decline in community connections and offers examples and hope for a renewal of… Read More Isolation or Community? Solidarity in America
Check out these recent articles from around the web on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as rising antisemitism and Islamophobia: What Hamas Wants by Yair Rosenberg: “Many got Hamas wrong. But they shouldn’t have. Again and again, people say they intend to murder Jews. And yet, century after century, the world produces new, tortuous justifications… Read More Around the Web: Israel-Palestine
Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey writes: For over 130 years, popes have been watching economic, social, and technological “progress” and writing long papal documents in response to that progress – often criticizing the human cost of unbridled technological development. The first pope to do this, Leo XIII, defended factory laborers against the dehumanizing working conditions… Read More How to Understand Pope Francis’ Critique of Technocratic Thinking
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter by Anne Case and Angus Deaton: “There is a deep and persistent national malcontent: In a recent NBC News poll, nearly three-quarters of Americans surveyed said the United States is on the wrong track, and Gallup… Read More Around the Web
Protect Democracy policy advocate and Millennial guest writer Chris Crawford addressed the thousands of attendees at The Parliament of the World’s Religions conference in Chicago.
via NCR: In Laudate Deum, a new apostolic exhortation released last week, Pope Francis continued the conversation from his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.” Climate scientists said the science is sound, and theologians applauded Francis’ “laser focus” on the climate crisis in Laudate Deum…. Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami celebrated… Read More Pope Francis Challenges US Bishops to Sincerely Implement Their Position on Climate Change
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
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