Cardinal Cupich on the Toxic Environment Giving Rise to Xenophobia, Racism, and Populist Nationalism

Cardinal Blase Cupich writes: We as a people are divided. Our world is plagued by global terrorism and the re-emergence of nationalism, threatened by climate change, the exploitation of limited resources, the exclusion of many people who are left homeless, or forced to migrate owing to wars and privation. As a result, we have become… Read More Cardinal Cupich on the Toxic Environment Giving Rise to Xenophobia, Racism, and Populist Nationalism

Facing a Climate Crisis, Is It Wrong to Have Children?

Gracy Olmstead writes: Many would-be parents in the millennial generation worry that bringing a child into this world might, in its effects, serve as a choice for more consumption, waste and damage to the planet. Others wonder whether the children conceived now might face a fate somehow worse than nonexistence in future years — a… Read More Facing a Climate Crisis, Is It Wrong to Have Children?

Pope Francis’ Video Message to the UN Climate Action Summit

via the Vatican: The problem of climate change is related to issues of ethics, equity and social justice. The current situation of environmental degradation is connected with the human, ethical and social degradation that we experience every day. This forces us to think about the meaning of our models of consumption and production, and the… Read More Pope Francis’ Video Message to the UN Climate Action Summit

Pope Francis: Let Spirit of Fraternity Triumph over Self-Centeredness, Individualism, and Pride

Pope Francis, via the Vatican: As we look around us, how many men and women, young people and children are suffering and in utter need! This is not part of God’s plan. How urgently Jesus calls us to die to our self-centredness, our individualism and our pride! In this way, we can allow the spirit… Read More Pope Francis: Let Spirit of Fraternity Triumph over Self-Centeredness, Individualism, and Pride

Pope Francis: Poverty is Not Inevitable, Never Stop Fighting It

via the Vatican: Let us say it forcefully: poverty is not inevitable!… At its foundations, we find a living faith translated into concrete actions capable of “moving mountains”. A faith that made it possible to see opportunity in place of insecurity; to see hope in place of inevitability; to see life in a place that… Read More Pope Francis: Poverty is Not Inevitable, Never Stop Fighting It