via Margaret Talev and Lorenzo Totaro: Pope Francis joined an international chorus urging Donald Trump to meet U.S. commitments on climate change in talks at the Vatican Wednesday. Francis gave the U.S. president a copy of his 2015 encyclical calling for urgent, drastic cuts in fossil-fuel emissions after a half-hour meeting in his private study. Francis’s… Read More Pope Francis Gives Trump Laudato Si, as Big Climate Decision Looms

Millennial writer Nichole Flores has a new article at America: Moving from Saint Anselm’s college to a public university, I was confronted with questions about how I would teach the Catholic theological tradition in an institution founded, in part, to keep theology on the margins of academic discourse. Thomas Jefferson gave architectural representation to this… Read More Can Catholic Theology Thrive at a Public University?

In Commonweal, Cardinal Blase Cupich discusses the legacy of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s consistent ethic of life approach and outlines his views of a consistent ethic of solidarity: …Catholic social teaching would not and could not be fitted into the partisan political framework that governs American public life, then or now. Yet this also explains the… Read More The Case for a Consistent Ethic of Solidarity

Julia Ioffe of The Atlantic explains what Putin wants from President Trump: chaos.

via The Atlantic: Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez plans to meet with pro-life group Democrats for Life of America, amid an ongoing controversy within the party over whether and to what extent Democrats should pursue voters who oppose abortion. Democrats for Life advocates for pro-life Democrats and describes itself as “the pro-life voice of… Read More DNC to Meet with Pro-Life Democrats