The Holy See’s Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer to the UN Archbishop Bernardito Auza: Our concern to take greater care for nature should also arouse in us an empathy with those left behind, those who are affected by environmental degradation, and those who are excluded from economic and political processes…. We are not faced with… Read More Holy See: Social and Environmental Justice are Interconnected
The world you inhabit has suddenly become dark. You are seeing things you had, until this point, only read about in books. The brand of Christianity that you adhered to–that you wanted to lay it on the line for–has started to unravel under the weight of injustice. You will begin to shed layer after layer… Read More A Letter to My Younger Disillusioned Self, In a Time of Similar Upheaval
Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for President and Hillary Clinton has math firmly on her side to win the Democratic nomination, the next six months of politics is going to be contentious if not outright ugly. Not just because we’re heading into an election that no one wants, but quite simply… Read More From the Francis Moment to the Francis Movement: Mercy is the Way Forward
Imagine that you’ve just graduated from college and moved to a city for your first real job. How do you live your faith and find community? Or perhaps you’ve just started a family and want to raise your children around people living the faith. How do you respond to the universal call to holiness? One… Read More Sant’Egidio, Lay Groups, Service, and Social Justice
Pope Francis’ much-anticipated apostolic exhortation on the family, Amoris Laetitia, does not disappoint. It is an incredible work that is full of good advice for both families and church leaders, delivered with theological richness and pastoral sensitivity. Do read the whole thing if you can. A lot has already been written on many of the key elements… Read More Amoris Laetitia and Social Justice: Ten Quotes from Pope Francis’ Exhortation
Millennial Catholic Megan McCabe, who has written on hookup culture and rape culture at Millennial, has a new article at America. She writes: This process of desensitization and subsequent search for a new thrill is one way that male viewers find themselves aroused by acts of violence and degradation that they previously would have found… Read More Pornography Is a Social Justice Issue
Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at NCR. He writes: Accept “political homelessness” and live in the tension. John Carr, the former director of the U.S. bishops’ justice and peace department, uses the phrase “politically homeless” to describe where Catholicism’s consistent ethic of life leaves us. We might be “comfortable with neither… Read More Four ways to Heal the Social Justice/Pro-life Divide
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