Millennial Catholics around the world are acting to protect creation and address climate change:

via Vatican Radio: We are part of a fragmented culture, a throwaway culture.  A culture tainted by the exclusion of everything that might threaten the interests of a few.  A culture that is leaving by the roadside the faces of the elderly, children, ethnic minorities seen as a threat.  A culture that little by little… Read More Pope Francis on Responding to the Throwaway Culture with Mercy

That each may contribute to the common good and to the building of a society that places the human person at the center:

Here are some highlights from the US Bishops’ 2016 Labor Day statement: We behold signs that have become too familiar in the years following the Great Recession: stagnant wages, industry leaving towns and cities behind, and the sharp decline in the rate of private-sector organized labor, which fell by more than two-thirds between 1973 and… Read More US Bishops: Greater Economic Justice Needed to Strengthen the Family

Pope Francis on St. Teresa of Calcutta in the homily of her canonization mass today (via Vatican Radio): Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defense of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded.  She was… Read More Pope Francis on St. Teresa of Calcutta: May She Be Your Model of Holiness!