We’re still weeks away from Pope Francis’ highly anticipated trip to the United States. But Stephen Colbert is already giving the pope a warm welcome, thanking him for his commitment to a Church for the poor and about the poor.
Pope Francis: “Belief means transcending ourselves, leaving behind our comfort and the inflexibility of our ego in order to center our life in Jesus Christ.”
Here are some highlights of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle’s letter to Caritas Internationalis: “In some parts of the world babies are born, children grow up and adults face the end of their lives living and working in the poisonous waste created and discarded by others. In other parts people live on a tightrope between floods… Read More Cardinal Tagle’s Letter on Laudato Si
Pope Francis: “He created the world as a beautiful garden and asked us to care for it. But through sin, man has disfigured that natural beauty; through sin, man has also destroyed the unity and beauty of our human family, creating social structures which perpetuate poverty, ignorance, and corruption.”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: A moral commitment to end hunger by Faustine Wabwire: “An opportunity to steer the course of the entire world comes along only once in a generation—if that often. Looked at one way, we are at a crisis moment that should force us to act. But we… Read More Around the Web (Part 2)
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Here Are The Victims Of The Chattanooga Shooting by Buzzfeed News: “Four Marines — Thomas Sullivan, Skip Wells, David Wyatt, and Carson Holmquist— were identified as of Friday morning. A Navy sailor, Randall Smith, who was hurt in the shooting, died from his injuries on Saturday.”… Read More Around the Web (Part 1)
Pope Francis: “The Gospel presents Joseph as a just man, hard-working and strong. But he also shows great tenderness, which is not a mark of the weak but of those who are genuinely strong, fully aware of reality, and ready to love and serve in humility.”
