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"This is a 'hidden' chapter of American civil-rights history: the story of multiracial resistance movements and the long battle to find a spiritual home."
Listen now: Part one of our podcast series on the history of Black Catholic Detroit is live!
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Accumulating wealth is now the way many people seek to belong—to “buy” their place in the world. But an extrinsic source of belonging will always be fragile.
Ian Marcus Corbin on the ownerist society:
TOMORROW: We're delighted to launch Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson's narrative podcast series on the rise, erosion, and defiant survival of Black Catholic Detroit.
Listen to the teaser now!
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In the first episode of our new limited podcast series, “The City and the Cross,” inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson traces the origins and flowering of Black Catholic Detroit.
Listen now!
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Whether Democrats secure a narrow majority in the upcoming midterms or thrash Trump’s GOP, successful female candidates will be central to the story.
Justin Vassallo: 'Can Women Deliver a Blue Wave?'
"This extraordinary encyclical powerfully articulates a 'civilization of love' as the ultimate worthy aim of technical mastery."
Frank Pasquale on 'Magnifica humanitas':
"Charity reminds us, with Weil, that in a state of perfection, we will love as impersonal persons."
Ellen Wayland-Smith: What does Christian love have to do with the austere cool of a green crystal?
Antoni Gaudí’s vision for the Sagrada Família is a prime example of the creativity Pope Leo praises in ‘Magnifica humanitas.’
Vanessa R. Corcoran on Gaudí, Leo, and human creativity:
"A great novel or poem does not simplify the world; it complicates it in a way we can endure. It makes the world harder to judge but easier to live in." — @antoniospadaro.bsky.social
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Thought of the day:
“A great novel or poem does not simplify the world; it complicates it in a way we can endure. It makes the world harder to judge but easier to live in.”
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Neil Turkewitz
Whether Democrats secure a narrow majority in the upcoming midterms or thrash Trump’s GOP, successful female candidates will be central to the story.
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Accumulating wealth is now the way many people seek to belong—to "buy" their place in the world. But an extrinsic source of belonging will always be fragile.
In 'Magnifica humanitas,' Pope Leo presents a genuinely universalist civilizational discourse, calling for a social order whose guiding principle is love.
“To create hope with words is to resist the anesthesia of indifference, to narrate what has been left out of society’s dominant scripts, to restore faces and voices to those flattened into numbers or categories.”
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Frank Pasquale
Pope Francis knew that literature is one of the rare human practices still able to establish a common ground.
