CST 101 is a collaborative 7-part video series presented by the USCCB and Catholic Relief Services on Catholic Social Teaching. In this video, Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Helen Alvaré, and Bill O’Keefe discuss Rights and Responsibilities:
Pope Francis recently addressed vanity in one of his homilies: Greed, vanity, and pride are the roots of all evils…. The vanity that makes us swell up. The vanity that does not have long life, because it is like a soap bubble. The vanity that does not give us true gain. What profit comes to… Read More Pope Francis on Vanity, “an Osteoporosis of the Soul”
via Vatican News: The annual World Food Day is being observed this Sunday October 16th and has as its theme “the climate is changing.” In a message issued Friday to mark the occasion, Pope Francis said everyone has a responsibility to protect the planet for future generations…. The Pope said that this theme, “leads us… Read More Pope Francis: To Fight Hunger, Combat Climate Change
That journalists, in carrying out their work, may always be motivated by respect for truth and a strong sense of ethics:
Archbishop José Gomez: “There is suffering and injustice and loneliness and poverty in our world. And we cannot just walk on by, pretending we do not see it.”
As the Church’s opposition to the death penalty grows stronger, a greater emphasis seems to be on the presumed inherent incompatibility of the death penalty with mercy toward the individual person facing execution, rather than its impact on justice or the common good. Depending on one’s theological views, this may be seen as a positive… Read More The Death Penalty is Fundamentally Unjust
Pope Francis: “How beautiful it is to see the smallest & most needy welcomed and cared for.”
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