Check out these recent articles from around the web: Overdose Deaths Have Surged During the Pandemic, C.D.C. Data Shows by NY Times: “More than 87,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over the 12-month period that ended in September, according to preliminary federal data, eclipsing the toll from any year since the opioid epidemic began in… Read More Around the Web
Millennial writers and contributors Patrick Manning, Marcus Mescher, Fr. Patrick Gilger, Andy Otto, and Anna Floerke Scheid, along with editor Robert Christian, have signed a new letter to Congress calling for pro-family, pro-worker policies with other faith leaders, including Rachel Anderson of Families Valued, Katelyn Beaty, Rev. Chris Butler, Julie Hanlon Rubio, and Melissa Wear.… Read More Faith Leaders Call on Congress to Support Pro-Family, Pro-Worker Policies
via Philip Pullella: Pope Francis launched an initiative on Tuesday to make Catholic institutions ranging from families to universities to businesses environmentally sustainable in seven years, saying a “predatory attitude” toward the planet must end. The Laudato Si Action Platform takes its name from the pope’s landmark 2015 encyclical on the need to protect the… Read More Pope Launches Laudato Si Action Platform
On May 5, 2021, Franciscan Action Network hosted the first in a series of four discussions on Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’ latest encyclical. The panelists, Kim Daniels ( co-director of Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life) and Heidi Schlumpf (executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter) dove deeply into the message… Read More Fratelli Tutti on Culture and Society
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Should a Child Benefit Be Based on Marital and Employment Status? by Amber Lapp: “The relationship between a cash benefit and marriage and employment rates is worth examining very thoroughly. It would be tragic if, in trying to encourage self-sufficiency and stability, we withheld support that… Read More Around the Web
via Medium: Remarks as prepared for address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences event, Dreaming of a Better Restart, in a session entitled Financial and Tax Solidarity. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on human life and our economies. It has also exacerbated global inequality, potentially… Read More Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Talks Climate, Inequality, Taxation, and Solidarity at Vatican Summit
Pope Francis: “We need a journalism that is free, at the service of truth, goodness, and justice; a journalism that helps build a culture of encounter.”
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