via the Georgetown Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life: The consistent ethic of life, an active commitment to protect all human life and promote the dignity of all, is being tested in new and challenging ways. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision and its repercussions have generated intense conflict and underscored our responsibility… Read More Promoting a Consistent Ethic of Life
Dan DiLeo writes: Animated by Catholic social teaching, especially Pope Francis’ Laudate Deum and the U.S. bishops’ climate advocacy, each bishop should enact a science-based diocesan decarbonization policy. Such commitment engages faith and reason to advance the church’s evangelical mission. Archbishop Thomas Zinkula of Dubuque, Iowa, and Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago are leading the… Read More Bishops: It’s Time to Decarbonize Your Diocese
Kim Daniels, the director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, was interviewed by Christiane Amanpour on Ash Wednesday. Here are a couple of her responses: Well, I’m so glad you highlighted that interview because I think it’s really important to put this in the context of Pope Francis’… Read More Pope Francis is a Moral Leader Who is Offering a Hopeful, Dynamic Vision for the Church
Pope Francis: “Love can recognize good things even in bad situations. Love keeps a tiny flame alight even in the darkest night.”
Here are some highlights of Pope Francis’ message to a delegation of the International Federation of Catholic Universities: Indeed, the Catholic university, being “one of the best instruments that the Church offers to our age” (ibid., 10), cannot fail to be an expression of the love that inspires every activity of the Church, namely, God’s… Read More Pope Francis’ Vision for Catholic Universities
Check out these recent articles from around the web: America Unraveled by Ian Marcus Corbin: “In the meantime, we also need renewed visions in our communities — our churches, families, neighborhoods and schools. Like MLK in Birmingham jail, Christ in the desert, Thoreau at Walden Pond or Dostoevsky in Siberia, we need leaders who can… Read More Around the Web
via American RadioWorks: In the New Deal era, educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune was called the “First Lady of the Struggle” for her influence on the Roosevelt administration on civil rights issues. On the eve of America’s entrance into World War II, she joined a panel discussion on NBC radio’s weekly public affairs broadcast… Read More Flashback: Mary McLeod Bethune on What American Democracy Means to Her
Millennial 