via Reuters: At least 31 people — mostly young children — drowned Wednesday after falling from a packed migrant boat while trying to reach Europe from North Africa, rescuers said. The vessel, one of a group off the Libya coast, listed suddenly, sending about 200 occupants tumbling into the Mediterranean Sea, Italian Coast Guard commander… Read More ‘Mostly Toddlers’ Among 31 Drowned
via the USCCB: Earlier today, President Trump unveiled a budget plan that calls for a sharp increase in military and immigration enforcement spending and stark cuts across much of the rest of the government including the elimination of dozens of long-standing federal programs that assist the poor and most vulnerable among us…. The cuts could… Read More Trump’s Budget Cuts Target the Poor and Vulnerable
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
Pope Francis: “We are called to live not as one without others, above or against others, but with and for others.”
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.
