Tag: Hope

A Hopeful Future Seen at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice 2013

If you want to get excited about the future of the Church, I recommend attending the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice next year, the annual event organized by the Ignatian Solidarity Network. This year’s event featured an array of interesting organizations, speakers, and break-out sessions. What impressed me most, however, was the remarkable group of… Read More A Hopeful Future Seen at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice 2013

Robert Christian

Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: CCHD: Putting the Gospel into Practice by John Gehring: “At a time when 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty and extreme income inequality is growing, a contribution to C.C.H.D. is a powerful way to affirm Catholic identity and empower those struggling to lift themselves out… Read More Around the Web

Millennial

Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Tea Party vs. the Common Good by Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter: “The individualism that is such a part of the American psyche has developed into something deeply pernicious, a denial of the possibility of the nation coming together, in the form of government action,… Read More Around the Web

Millennial

Putting Our Trust in God: Giving up on Justice or the Source of Real Hope?

As I watched Melissa Harris Perry’s coverage of the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, a former Bronx prosecutor lamented Trayvon Martin’s family’s statement that “they put their trust in God.” She interpreted this as a signal of hopelessness and giving up. But as I watched Trayvon Martin’s cousins standing outside of their missionary Baptist… Read More Putting Our Trust in God: Giving up on Justice or the Source of Real Hope?

Meghan Clark