If you use social media, you’ve probably taken a BuzzFeed quiz. (Or 20.) If you haven’t participated, the gist is simple: you answer a series of multiple choice questions on a particular topic (choose a color, pick a relaxing activity, etc.) and the popular website BuzzFeed will tell you which Bill Murray character you are,… Read More Which One Of Jesus’ Disciples Are You? Q&A with BuzzFeed’s Ellie Hall
Pope Francis: “Jesus did not come to teach us good manners, how to behave well at the table!…Christ came to save us, to show us the way, the only way out of the quicksand of sin, and this way is mercy.”
The Vatican’s failure to speak with moral and intellectual clarity on the conflict in Syria has largely flown under the radar this year. Despite the use of chemical weapons, barrel bombs targeting civilian populations, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, mass execution of prisoners, and countless other crimes against humanity since he… Read More Participant in Vatican Workshop on Syria Favors Assad Retaining Power
So there I was, getting beaten over the head with an umbrella by a client in the middle of the parking lot (I’m a social worker, working with men and women experiencing homelessness). As the umbrella came down, my mind raced, thinking of the possible ways I could best handle this situation (clinically speaking of… Read More Leading with Vulnerability (and Getting Hit over the Head with an Umbrella)
Millennial editor Robert Christian argues that the consistent life movement should be more inclusive toward supporters of just war theory and the Responsibility to Protect, highlighting its failure to offer a realistic approach to ending the mass atrocities in Syria. Is it really pro-life to do nothing while thousands are slaughtered each month, while barrel… Read More Robert Christian in Ethika Politika on the Consistent Life Movement
Cardinal Orlando Quevedo: “Today, the Church has riches, institutions. But I would like to think that the only way the Church can redeem these resources as well as its institutions would be to place them at the service of justice and of the poor for the sake of the kingdom of God.”
Pope Francis: “The gravest deprivation experienced by the aged is not the weakening of one’s physical body, nor the disability that may result from this. Rather, it is the abandonment, exclusion and deprivation of love.”
