Check out these recent articles from around the web: All the Lonely People by Ross Douthat “As the University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox pointed out recently, there’s a strong link between suicide and weakened social ties: people — and especially men — become more likely to kill themselves ‘when they get disconnected from society’s… Read More Around the Web
Sociologist Robert Bellah has described Memorial Day as a day that serves to “integrate the local community into the national cult” of American civil religion. Memorial Day was first officially observed on May 30, 1868 for Americans to pause in awe and gratitude for the supreme sacrifices made by those who died fighting in the… Read More Find a Parade Today
Yesterday my Saturday morning began (as it so often does) with the New York Times, and in what is starting to seem quite common, a cover story of a violent and public rape. This week it’s Brazil (“Public Rapes Outrage Brazil, Testing Ideas of Image and Class”), but there was very little new or unique… Read More Rape on the Front Page: What Will it Take to Wake Us Up?
Another day, another outstanding homily from the Pope. Today’s homily is based on the gospel passage in which people are bringing their children to Jesus for a blessing, but the disciples are trying to send them away. Jesus is not having it. He embraces and blesses the children, then rebukes the disciples, saying, “Let the… Read More Do Not Hinder Them: Open the door to faith
For the first time in the two millennia history of the Catholic Church, an entire papal encyclical will be dedicated to the theme of poverty. Pope Francis revealed this news recently in a private conservation with an Italian bishop. He will finish the work after publishing the final encyclical from his predecessor Benedict XVI on the… Read More Breaking News: Francis’s first encyclical will be on poverty
FIND COMMUNITY 1. Stay Connected to your Past: Maintain close relationships with those who have encouraged and supported you up to this point in your faith life (family, HS/college friends, teachers, campus ministers, etc.) 2. Go to Mass every Sunday: Find people to go to Mass with—do not regularly sit alone; form a small community… Read More Top 10 Ways to Stay Catholic after College
Pope Francis delivered a wonderful homily earlier today on making a “culture of encounter” and the duty of all to do good. The full report from Vatican Radio can be read here, but this is the key quote: “The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of… Read More The Lord Has Redeemed All of Us
