Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article at Time. He writes: The Catholic Church’s advocacy against the U.S.’ inane gun laws has caught the attention of the gun lobby. In 2012, the American bishops’ modest work on the issue frustrated the National Rifle Association so much that they listed the United States Conference of… Read More CJH: Gun Control Is a Pro-Life Value
President Obama became emotional today as he talked about the costs of our nation’s radically libertarian approach to gun rights to the other rights we value as Americans: The White House and the have President outlined a package of executive actions that are designed to reduce gun violence: The package…includes 10 separate provisions, White House… Read More It Is Time to Confront the Problem of Gun Violence
Guns take a life every 16 minutes in the United States—92 lives every day. In a compelling op-ed for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof argues that the time has come to address gun violence in response to a public health crisis. Gun rights activists will quickly retort that guns ensure greater safety and that… Read More Guns in America: Ideology or Idolatry?
One of the reasons we created Millennial was because we were concerned that millennial Catholics did not have adequate forums in which to express their ideas on religion, politics, and culture. In particular, we felt that those who were both pro-life and pro-social justice, shaped by the personalist and communitarian principles of Catholic teaching, were… Read More Most Popular Guest Posts in 2013
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Pope Francis the troublemaker by Michael Gerson: “Over the millennia, this strain of impatience with legalism has provided Christianity with an advantage. When the church becomes ossified, legalistic and hypocritical — as all institutions periodically do — it is the radical reformers who carry on its… Read More Around the Web
Last year Father James Martin, SJ put forward the argument that gun control is a religious issue and “as much of a ‘life issue’ or a ‘pro-life issue,’ as some religious people say, as is abortion, euthanasia or the death penalty (all of which I am against), and programs that provide the poor with the… Read More US Bishops: Gun Control is a Pro-Life Issue, Now is the Time to Act
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