As anyone who reads New York Times conservative columnist Ross Douthat on a regular basis can tell you, he is one of the stronger, more genuine Catholics that can be found in the world of punditry. He has dedicated countless hours to providing his extraordinary insight about the Catholic Church, modern day heresy, and the… Read More Douthat’s Concession: The Separation of Church and Punditry?
Millennial writer Dan DiLeo has a new article in Catholic Rural Life Magazine. He writes: The connection between solidarity and Creation care exists because of their concurrent relationships to the common good. The Church recognizes that humanity’s embeddedness within Creation means that promotion of the common good requires sustainable environmental conditions. The full article can… Read More Creation Care and Solidarity
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Many life milestones are out of millennials’ reach by Catherine Rampell: “We want to move out. We want to own our home. We want to marry. We want to work. The problem is, many of us can’t.” U.N. Investigators Cite Atrocities in Syria by NY Times:… Read More Around the Web
The Francis effect has come to the United States. News reports have surfaced that Blase Cupich–the bishop of Spokane, Washington–will be named the next archbishop of Chicago this morning. This past June, he spoke at Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case Against Libertarianism, which we covered extensively here at Millennial. Cupich explained that “by uncoupling human… Read More Blase Cupich–champion of social justice–is the next archbishop of Chicago
Cardinal Sean O’Malley recounted this powerful story at the launch of Crux, which I had heard previously, but found just as compelling: I often share the story of my first days at the ‘Centro Católico’ when I was visited by a man form El Salvador who sat at my desk and bursts into tears as… Read More Cardinal O’Malley Explains the Vulnerability of Many Immigrants in One Story
Early this month Henry McCollum, North Carolina’s longest serving death row inmate, walked out of prison a free man. He has spent the majority of his life—30 years—behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Thanks to DNA evidence, we now know that the confession extracted by police in the early 1980s was in… Read More Gambling with Innocent Lives: The Death Penalty and a Flawed Criminal Justice System
Pope Francis: “I make a heartfelt appeal, that a logic of profit does not prevail, but one of solidarity and justice.”
