The full text (via the Archdiocese of Boston) of Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s homily at the #BorderMass for immigrants and immigration reform earlier today is below. Cardinal O’Malley and his brother bishops are right: our current immigration system is a moral calamity that denies aspiring Americans their rights and dignity as children of God. Scripture tells… Read More Cardinal Sean O’Malley on Our Broken Immigration System
Millennial co-founder and contributing editor Christopher Hale is quoted in a new article on CNN on Pope Francis and President Obama: “If I was advising President Obama, I would say the No. 1 spokesperson on American immigration reform should be Pope Francis,” Hale said. “He has so much capital in this city. You have Catholics,… Read More Millennial Co-founder Christopher Hale in Time and CNN
Last night’s State of the Union touched on many issues that are connected to achieving the common good. Check out some of the top quotes below. On creating a more just economy: “Average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of… Read More Top Quotes from the State of the Union
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Pope Francis and the argument for compassionate capitalism by Michael Gerson: “In ‘The Joy of the Gospel,’ Francis returns to the defining theme of his papacy: the priority of the person. Human beings have an essential value and nature. They can’t be reduced to economic objects… Read More Around the Web
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
Millennial writer Nichole Flores has a new article in America that addresses the issue of sexual violence in the agriculture industry, along with other threats to human dignity and rights: “The rape of migrant women is but one violation of workers’ rights and human dignity common in U.S. agricultural fields. Undocumented women and men are… Read More Nichole Flores in America: Seeing migrant women through the eyes of Christ
The Bishops Take a Stand Left-leaning Catholics are used to being disappointed: disappointed by the Republican Party, for its apparent indifference to the economic travails of the working class; disappointed by the Democratic Party, for its slow but steady drift away from a big tent approach and toward the same with-us-or-against-us culture war mentality on… Read More The Bishops: Right on Immigration, Wrong on Immigration Reform
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