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.”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Universities Are Failing at Inclusion by David Brooks: “Pluralists seek to replace the demonizing, demeaning and dividing ethos with one that encourages respect, relationships and cooperation. Pluralists believe that people’s identities are complex and shifting, that most human beings shouldn’t be divided into good/evil categories, that… Read More Around the Web
Here are some highlights from our 2013 Millennial of the Year Malala Yousafzai’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture: And with Mandela’s legacy in mind, I asked myself: What injustice is the world overlooking? Where are we allowing inhumanity to become the status quo? The answer for me was very clear, and very personal: the oppression of… Read More Malala on Our Responsibility to the Girls of Afghanistan
Heidi Schlumpf writes: At a time when democracy is in decline and it’s difficult to imagine people coming together to even discuss the common good, religious people and institutions can help reconstitute the collapsed public sphere — but not in ways that many think of “public religion” today, said sociologist of religion Jesuit Fr. Paddy… Read More How Public Religion Can Help Stem the Tide of De-democratization
via Lauren Gilger, KJZZ: Fr. Paddy Gilger, SJ: There are huge changes that social contexts put on us as human persons. But beneath those changes, beneath the impact that our widely variant cultures have on us as human beings, there is something universal inside of us as human beings longing to come out. And I… Read More Our Desire to Be Seen and the Source of Another Person’s Gratitude
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