Millenial Journal

Photo by Jonathan Velasquez on Unsplash Fr. Patrick Gilger, S.J. writes: What the manosphere is, in other words, is a cacophony of conflicting answers—some encouraging, some infuriating—to the shared question of what it means to be a man today….

There is a temptation, reading Pope Leo XIV’s letter on artificial intelligence, to hear its two cities — Babel and Jerusalem — as a simple contrast between pride and humility, or between technology baptized and technology refused. But the deeper distinction the Holy Father draws is political, and it is the one I want to dwell on: the difference between homogeneity and communion.

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All. by Anna Louie Sussman: “The future has never been assured, but it feels as though we are living in a time of spectacular uncertainty. In the United States, job tenures have contracted and income volatility has risen. Life expectancy, once on an inexorable march upward, has fallen for less-educated women and men.

Photo by Aerps.com on Unsplash Anna Rowlands writes: Eleven years ago, Laudato Si’ called us to an urgent care for the earth and the poor, warning of a technocratic paradigm that measures human worth by utility. Today, Pope Leo makes clear that to overcome this paradigm and exercise this care for the earth and the poor requires us to urgently safeguard the human. An integral ecology requires an integral humanism centred in Jesus Christ….

Millennial editor Robert Christian on Magnifica Humanitas: VIDEO

Vatican Media Here are 50 quotes from Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical Magnifica humanitas: “Babel thus reveals the limits of any effort that, however grandiose, arises from self-affirmation, sacrifices human dignity for efficiency, and aspires to reach heaven without God’s blessing.” (7) “Technology has the power to heal, connect, educate and protect our common home; but it can also divide, exclude and generate new forms of injustice.” (9) “In the era of artificial intelligence, when human...

Last month, 22 bishops, leaders from many of the religious institutions and Catholic organizations across the US, and prominent theologians, including Millennial editors, writers, and contributors, expressed their support for Pope Leo and commitment to standing up for the common good with the Holy Father: Dear Pope Leo and Archbishop Coakley, We, the undersigned Catholic bishops, clergy, women and men religious, and other lay leaders in the United States, are writing to express our gratitude...

Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash Pope Leo XIV via the Vatican: Indeed, at a time when many in the world seem to be losing their spiritual and ethical points of reference, finding themselves imprisoned in individualism, superficiality and hypocrisy, the university stands out as a privileged place of friendship, cooperation and, at the same time, of interiority and reflection….

Photo by Xavier Coiffic on Unsplash Christopher White writes: Substantively, the two men are quite similar. They’re motivated by a vision of a Church that stands with the poor and marginalized. They both recognize that the Church’s structures have to be remade and rethought to become more inclusive and more welcoming, where Catholics feel as if they are more heard inside their own Church. On that front, they are cut from the same cloth. Stylistically, they’re very different personalities.

Photo by Flow Clark on Unsplash Pope Leo XIV via the Vatican: The one who accumulates wealth and remains indifferent to others is unjust. This view of justice is both simple and radical for it recognizes the image of God in others. Indeed, a religion without mercy and a society without solidarity are a scandal in God’s eyes. Yet many societies that consider themselves advanced are plunging ever deeper into inequality and exclusion….