Pope Francis: “It is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against… Read More Quote of the Day
Twenty years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, some exceptionally talented people are still not able to use their talents to heal. Frequently it is the attitude of “normal” people that prevents this, not the actual condition of the people these laws seek to protect. As the Supreme Court put it, “Society’s… Read More Michael Argenyi’s Victory and How Universities Should Respond
One of the tasks we embraced in 2013 was keeping our readers updated on the latest news on Pope Francis. Not everyone has the time to keep tabs on the Vatican press, but our readers clearly had the desire to follow the pope’s activities and words. Luckily, contributing editor and Millennial co-founded Christopher Hale embraced… Read More Top 15 Breaking News Stories on Pope Francis in 2013 on Millennial
Check out these recent articles from around the web: No Good Without God by Fr. Robert Barron: “Removing God is tantamount to removing the ground for the basic goods, and once the basic goods have been eliminated, all that is left is the self-legislating and self-creating will. Thus, we should be wary indeed when atheists… Read More Around the Web
Millennial writer Dan DiLeo has a great article in Political Theology Today in which he explores how one’s ideology and preconceptions (or in anthropological terms, “fundamental values, root paradigms, and ‘global pre-scientific convictions’”) can stand in the way of being open to the radical conversion to which Christ calls us, specifically referencing the Catholic Right’s… Read More Dan DiLeo in Political Theology: Values, Paradigms, and Convictions
You can almost always find something insightful in Pope Francis’ homilies, but today’s was particularly good and included many gems of wisdom. In it, the pope clarifies what Christian love is all about, and also what it is not about. He described some of the challenges that we face that keep us away from living… Read More Love Actually: Concrete, Unselfish and Generous
I used to ask my students what they wanted to be when they grew up and why. The answers were often very revelatory, illuminating what motivated them, what inspired their hopes, and not just what they wanted to be, but who they wanted to be. It often reflected their values or insecurities, sometimes both. If… Read More Countering the Toxicity of Princess Culture
