Millennial

12/12/2024

“If we want our students to choose love, live joyfully, and create a more just world, it must begin with our own witness, our commitment to living these things, and giving kids a sense of their own immeasurable worth.…

We can and should show them what it looks like to live with authenticity, passion, kindness, and concern for others. And we can make sure they know they are loved. We must.”

The great privilege and responsibility we have as teachers is getting to love our students—to always will the good of our students and to always value them, especially who they are at the core of t…

03/12/2024

via the Berkley Center: October 21-22, 2024 | This conference will commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), with a special focus on the commemo…

25/11/2024

“I’m convinced that our loneliness epidemic is rooted in our shared history,” he says. “We feel lonely because we no longer feel we belong here. We lack a sense of destiny, of individual purpose and collective meaning. We are missing a story, a community, a set of common practices, and a shared understanding of the world in which we can find our own place….”

via Jesuits Magazine: In 2023, and earlier this year, Fr. Patrick “Paddy” Gilger, SJ, presented a lecture on loneliness in two venues—first at St. Paul’s College in Winnipeg, Canada, and then as pa…

25/11/2024

“We need to remember that we are finite creatures whose resources will be depleted by tense and difficult conversations—and to discern where those resources will be best spent. We should consider whether the energy we are exerting trying to persuade strangers on the internet could be conserved for the sake of our physical neighbors.”

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk by Tom Nichols: “As a private citizen, she can apologize for Assad and Putin to her heart…

20/11/2024

Pope Francis: “I pose a question that each of us can ask ourselves: Do I deprive myself of something to give to the poor? When I give alms, do I touch the hand of the poor and look them in the eye? Brothers and sisters, let us not forget that the poor cannot wait!”

https://millennialjournal.com/2024/11/20/quote-of-the-day-599/

20/11/2024

“Unlike Biden, Harris avoided any sustained outreach to religious communities, including Catholics, who comprise nearly a quarter of the U.S. electorate. Her campaign did not run targeted ads aimed at Catholic voters, nor did it make a concerted effort to address their concerns on key issues like religious freedom, social justice, or life-affirming policies.”

Christopher Hale writes: Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign displayed a noticeable aversion to engaging with Catholic voters. Unlike Biden, Harris avoided any sustained outreach to religious commun…

19/11/2024

“Fostering a culture of membership is a long-haul project—more like the planting of acorns than the planting of sunflower seeds. It will require a years-long commitment to the fits and starts of civic experimentation. But even a partial transformation to a structure based more in membership would help address many of the party’s challenges.”

Millennial of the Year Pete Davis writes: If I could make everyone at Democratic National Committee headquarters read one book, it would be Theda Skocpol’s Diminished Democracy: From Membership to …

08/11/2024

US Commission on International Religious Freedom Chair Stephen Schneck: “Today we solemnly mark the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, when N***s destroyed synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes across Germany and Austria. We must confront rising antisemitism in Europe and violence like what happened in Amsterdam last night.”

https://millennialjournal.com/2024/11/08/quote-of-the-day-598/

04/11/2024

“The fact that young people seem to be subject to so many emotional social pressures that just were not so prevalent a generation or two ago, young people who face the serious issue of feeling helpless, suffering from depression. We, at least in my life, tended to think that youth and adolescence and young adulthood were filled with possibilities and joys. There were always individuals who had particular issues, but now more and more, our young people, they’re dealing with depression, and all of those issues that I’ve just named, and many others, have to be a part of our concern for the dignity of human life.”

In an interview with Crux, Cardinal Wilton Gregory states: No political party and certainly no individual candidate that I’ve experienced embraces, the full range of Catholic social, moral teaching…

03/11/2024

Read the full interview: https://millennialjournal.com/2024/10/28/millennial-catholic-interviews-daniel-petri/

31/10/2024

30/10/2024

Great highlights from the recent “For the Good of the Public” summit:

via The Center for Christianity & Public Life: “For the Good of the Public” offers an annual opportunity to hear from leading voices on issues of public importance, and to consider …

29/10/2024

"I love that Catholicism is an intellectual religion—yes, we have revelation, but Catholicism invites us to, paraphrasing the late Father James Schall, think about what else is out there. Catholicism invites us to see history, sciences, arts, math, philosophy, nature, and other things as means through which we can come to more fully understand the Truth. That’s why we need teachers and intellectuals to help us to learn and better understand the world around us, because, if all Truth is God’s Truth, then we cannot shut ourselves away from everything else that exists out there in the world. We must pursue knowledge to get closer to the Truth."

Daniel Petri is a social studies teacher at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School. Millennial editor Robert Christian interviewed him on teaching, technology, Catholic schools, civics, and his f…

25/10/2024

Gustavo explained: “But this is how God is with us. God does not just give us the basics, only what we need. God delights in us and loves us gratuitously, abundantly. God wants to spoil us, wants to see us enjoying life in its fullness. Just like a father treating his child to ice cream.”

Since I learned that Gustavo Gutierrez passed, I’ve been thinking of him and the time I spent with him at Boston College in the summers of 2008 and 2010. I’m still amazed at the joy he …

23/10/2024

Read the full post: https://millennialjournal.com/2024/10/17/5-reminders-before-you-vote/

23/10/2024

Pope Francis: “Please, let us not forget the poor. May we dream of a world in which water, bread, work, medicine, land, and a home are goods available to every individual. ”

https://millennialjournal.com/2024/10/22/quote-of-the-day-597/

18/10/2024

“Our first thought as voters should be: who best protects the weakest, poorest, most vulnerable people in our country and around the world? We value the well-being of all, but we know the rich and powerful will have little trouble having their voices heard and interests protected. We are called to stand with those who are ignored, excluded, and discarded. We are called to resist the throwaway culture and replace it with a culture of inclusion and solidarity. That starts by thinking about the poor and vulnerable and prioritizing their flourishing.”

No Catholic voter guide can replace the prudence that responsible citizens must exercise when they vote. But here are five reminders for Catholic voters this election season: Vote for the common go…

17/10/2024

“People do not exist in isolation; we are formed in and for community. For this reason, participation in the common good, alongside human dignity, are hallmarks of Catholic social teaching.”

Meghan Clark writes: People do not exist in isolation; we are formed in and for community. For this reason, participation in the common good, alongside human dignity, are hallmarks of Catholic soci…