Here are some key quotes from Pope Francis’ Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future: We need a politics that can integrate and dialogue with the poor, the excluded, and the vulnerable, that gives people a say in the decisions that impact their lives. Now, more than ever, what is revealed is the… Read More 15 Key Quotes from Pope Francis’ Let Us Dream
via the Vatican: Like a new flame this Good News springs up in the night: the night of a world already faced with epochal challenges and now oppressed by a pandemic severely testing our whole human family. In this night, the Church’s voice rings out: “Christ, my hope, has arisen!” (Easter Sequence). This is a… Read More Pope Francis on Easter: We Need Solidarity Not Indifference, Self-centeredness, Division, and Forgetfulness
One of my professors in graduate school defined sin as a “failure to bother to love.” In this description of sin, Rev. James Keenan, SJ, invites us to consider sin less in terms of breaking rules and more in terms of what we fail to see, think, feel, say, and do. Looking at our southern… Read More Manufactured Fear vs. the Christian Call to Solidarity: Failing to Bother to Love
Colin Kaepernick—the very mention of his name elicits strong reactions from football fans. Last August, as a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem in protest of ongoing police violence against black men and women around the country. The decision sparked considerable controversy and has likely cost Kaepernick his… Read More Colin Kaepernick’s Opposition is an Act of Solidarity
On March 15, Millennial co-sponsored an event with the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University on the Catholic commitment to global solidarity at a time of rising ‘America First’ nationalism. The event was moderated by Initiative director John Carr and featured Millennial writer and Washington Post editor Elizabeth Bruenig; Shaun… Read More Global Solidarity in an “America First” Nation
Earlier this week, ESPN hosted its annual award show, the ESPYS. This year’s show—usually a lighthearted celebration of sports’ greatest athletes and accomplishments from over the previous year—got off to a poignant and powerful start. Four of the NBA’s top stars, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James, Dwyane Wade (who recently joined the Chicago Bulls after… Read More Sports, Solidarity, and #BlackLivesMatter
America is running an excerpt from Millennial writer Meghan Clark’s book The Vision of Catholic Social Thought: The Virtue of Solidarity and the Praxis of Human Rights. She writes: Common humanity must be the starting point understood through radical interdependence. Catholic social thought offers an understanding of human persons in community in which human dignity… Read More Grounding social justice in our common humanity
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