via NCR: The Catholic Church in the U.S. is failing in its capacity to respond to climate change and to live up to its mission to safeguard God’s creation, a theologian said this week during a lecture that spawned an act of contrition from the archbishop in attendance. Daniel DiLeo, an assistant theology professor at… Read More The Catholic Church in the US Has Failed to Address the Climate Crisis with the Urgency Required

Preaching for Palm Sunday for Catholic Women Preach, Millennial writer Nichole Flores offers a reflection which names the words and feelings of woe and abandonment, but calls us to focus on words and actions of healing and mercy: “As we approach this Holy Week, May we find comfort in the words of mercy poured out… Read More May We Pour Out Mercy to Those Most in Need

via the Lumen Christi Institute: A conversation with Charles Taylor (McGill University), Patrizia Nanz (German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management), and Jason Blakely (Pepperdine University), moderated by Fr. Patrick Gilger, SJ. We are experiencing a crisis of democracy more powerful than anything seen in a generation: inequality continues at a galloping… Read More Fragile Democracy: Technocratic Takeover and Popular Renewal

Sabrina Danielsen, Emily Burke, and Millennial writer Dan DiLeo write: Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese observes that since inauguration day, U.S. bishops’ conference press releases about Biden’s policies have been notably positive. However, our research about the disparities in how the bishops’ conference publicly discussed Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama leads us to anticipate that… Read More The US Bishops Criticized Obama More than Trump, and More Often by Name

Christopher Hale writes: The American Rescue Plan that Biden signed into law last week is perhaps the most popular piece of major legislation in modern American history. A poll released earlier this month suggested that even 59% of Republicans support the legislation. While the bill didn’t receive a single Republican vote, Republicans are already touting… Read More Republicans Rightly Love Joe Biden’s Covid Relief Bill