via Zach Lowe: In an unprecedented meeting, a delegation of five NBA players and several officials from the National Basketball Players Association met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday morning for a private audience to discuss their work on social justice issues. An assistant to Pope Francis reached out to the players’ association… Read More Pope Francis Meets with NBA Players to Discuss Social Justice
Highlights from Pope Francis in chapter 6 of Fratelli Tutti: Approaching, speaking, listening, looking at, coming to know and understand one another, and to find common ground: all these things are summed up in the one word “dialogue”. If we want to encounter and help one another, we have to dialogue. (198) We need constantly… Read More Pope Francis on Universal Values and Dialogue
Millennial Catholic Ellen Koneck writes: “He’s at peace,” the chorus of well-meaning Christians wrote in notecards and whispered in the days and weeks after my brother died. But such sentiment – even if true – didn’t, doesn’t work when facing down the dark abyss of death. “He’s in heaven now,” they asserted, as if it… Read More In the Face of Tragedy, We Can Do Better Than Throw-Pillow Theology
2017 Millennial of the Year Michael Wear writes: Joe Biden succeeded in his mission to end Donald Trump’s presidency, and he did so, in part, because of the wise, persistent and strategic way his campaign related to faith. This was not inevitable. Mr. Trump’s re-election effort, like his campaign in 2016, relied on his ability… Read More The Faithful Voters Who Helped Biden Win
Bill McCormick, S.J. writes: Do Americans have any appetite for reconciliation after this year’s tense election season? Should they? During the first week after the election, I interviewed several Catholic thought leaders with these questions in mind. They did not all agree on what our objectives should be, but there was a consensus that any… Read More A Time for Reconciliation?
via Biden-Harris Transition: President-elect Joe Biden spoke this morning with His Holiness Pope Francis. The President-elect thanked His Holiness for extending blessings and congratulations and noted his appreciation for His Holiness’ leadership in promoting peace, reconciliation, and the common bonds of humanity around the world. The President-elect expressed his desire to work together on the… Read More Pope Francis Congratulates Joe Biden on Winning the Presidency
Highlights from Pope Francis in chapter 5 of Fratelli Tutti: The development of a global community of fraternity based on the practice of social friendship on the part of peoples and nations calls for a better kind of politics, one truly at the service of the common good. (154) But this can degenerate into an… Read More Pope Francis on Avoiding Unhealthy Populism and Dogmatic Neoliberalism
