Recently the USCCB posted this presentation on income inequality. I thought it was a great place to start on raising awareness about how wage inequality impacts people who are living in poverty in this country. It’s a major problem but it doesn’t have any simple solutions, and the presentation doesn’t really offer any. The complexity of… Read More How You Can Address Income Inequality and Poverty
Millennial writer Michael Jordan Laskey has a post on Oblation: A Blog of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, in which he discusses the movie American Hustle. He writes: In Irving we see that great, never-ending cycle of sin, confession, penance, and redemption—a cycle all of us fallen folk truly need to survive. The full… Read More Michael Jordan Laskey in Oblation on American Hustle
Pope Francis: “Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins.”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Prodigal Sons by David Brooks: “The father also understands that the younger brothers of the world will not be reformed and re-bound if they feel they are being lectured to by unpleasant people who consider themselves models of rectitude.” Human Rights Gold Medalists: Central African… Read More Around the Web
Catholic News Service describes the background of Pope Francis’ call for Christian unity earlier this week, delivered via an iPhone message: In an unusual video message, recorded on an iPhone by a Pentecostal pastor Pope Francis knew in Argentina, the pope says all Christians share blame for their divisions, speaks of his “longing” for their… Read More Pope Francis in iPhone Video: Pray to the Lord that he will unite us all
Pope Francis: “The loss of health and disability are never a good reason for excluding, or worse, for eliminating a person.”
Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster (UK): “Something is going seriously wrong when, in a country as affluent as ours, there are people left in (a) destitute situation.”
