The Focolare movement — the “Work of Mary” founded by Chiara Lubich — is partnering with national and international peacekeeping initiatives to overcome polarization and practice fruitful dialogue during the 2024 election year.
Focolare addresses overcoming polarization, promoting fruitful dialogue in this election year
Catholic Charities, three other major nonprofits ‘team up’ to counter polarization in US
Four major nonprofits recently launched a joint effort to counteract rising polarization and isolation in the U.S., including Catholic Charities USA, the organization dedicated to carrying out the domestic humanitarian work of the Catholic Church.
How deep are our divisions?
The musical movie “Mean Girls” could be one way to understand our highly polarized and politicized world today. Americans increasingly identify with one political group and react with hostility or fear to those who are not in their group.
ANALYSIS: How the synod is modeling a solution to the church’s polarization
The Synod on Synodality’s gathering in Rome is both modeling and providing an answer to the path to authentic unity for a deeply polarized church.
At 10 years, Pope Francis makes Americans ‘uncomfortable’ in their political views, Cardinal Wilton Gregory says
Cardinal Gregory said Pope Francis has made it “totally uncomfortable to take great comfort in any one dimension of the church’s social teaching.”
Everyone must take part in politics for the common good, pope says
The book titled, “El Pastor” (The Shepherd) covers the “challenges, reasons and reflections” of Pope Francis over the course of his pontificate.
In a polarized world, what is the mission of the church?
Father R. Aaron Wessman, the author of “The Church’s Mission in a Polarized World,” explores how we might rein in the momentum of hate that is pushing us further and further apart.
Catholic media must be in communion with pope, cardinal tells EWTN
Media outlets that identify as Catholic must live “in a spirit of communion” with the pope, especially at a time of “overly dramatic debates, also within the Church, which do not even spare the person and the magisterium of the pontiff,” the Vatican secretary of state said.