On Tuesday, June 25, 2013, President Obama unveiled the most ambitious plan to date by any U.S. President to address the increasingly urgent climate crisis. Although the speech was addressed to both the nation and the world, the address is particularly relevant for millennial Catholics. This is first due to the fact that he unveiled… Read More President Obama on Climate Change
Same-sex marriage proponents are rejoicing today, as DOMA has been declared unconstitutional and the appeal of Prop 8 has been dismissed. The war for same-sex marriage is not over, but a huge battle has been won. Particularly giddy are the affluent liberals—entertainers, media members, Democratic party activists, and lesser-known members of the bourgeoisie—who were already… Read More Is Social Liberalism Resurgent?
More than twenty years ago, Pope John Paul II brought the attention of the Catholic Church to the issue of climate change when he declared in his 1990 World Day of Peace Message, “The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related ‘greenhouse effect’ has now reached crisis proportions.” Since that time, the Church… Read More Catholic Millennials and Climate Change
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Florida bishops say use of death penalty ‘sanctions revenge’ by CNS “Using capital punishment to show that killing is wrong ‘sanctions revenge,’ Florida’s seven Catholic bishops said in a letter to Gov. Rick Scott.” Eucharist nourishes, sustains and should transform people, pope say by CNS “In… Read More Around the Web
Are you prepared for the invasion of Zombie debt? Everyone knows there is a foreclosure crisis – but are we prepared for the unfolding crises of education and medical debt? In his recent NY Times blog, Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream, economist Joseph Stiglitz notes some astounding facts: “According to the Federal Reserve Bank… Read More The Walking Debt: Expanded Look at Zombie Debt, Jubilee & Students
I attended a Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good event on Wednesday that featured the journalist John Thavis (this is one of the perks of Millennial being a CACG project, the downside being my epic fail-level small talk as the sole introvert in a room full of bigwig Catholic extroverts). Thavis, the author of… Read More John Thavis, Pope Francis, and Millennials
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