Christopher White writes: As the U.S. Catholic Church faces what is arguably the greatest challenge in its history, Pope Francis has tapped the man who guided the U.S. bishops through the 2002 sexual abuse crisis to lead the archdiocese of the nation’s capital, after its long-serving cardinal resigned under fire last year for his handling… Read More Pope Names Wilton Gregory Next Archbishop of Washington
Brian Fraga writes: But sadly, the kind of extremism that motivates someone to desecrate a Jewish cemetery, to march with neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, or to shoot dozens of unarmed worshipers in a New Zealand mosque is on the rise in the United States and around the world…. Whether it’s called white nationalism or the… Read More Catholic Social Teaching is the Perfect Antidote to White Nationalism and the Alt-Right
Read the document instead of news reports about the document. Talk to Bishops and laity who were a part of the process instead of those paid to talk about it. Remember that the age range of “youth” refers to those 16-29 but is applicable to all young people making key life decisions (late teens, 20s… Read More 10 Initial Observations on Pope Francis’ Post-Synodal Exhortation on Young People, Christus Vivit
via Vatican News: Pope Francis marked the Day on Friday with a message to the Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, José Graziano da Silva. “Water is an essential asset for the equilibrium of ecosystems and human survival, and it must be managed and cared for so that it is not polluted… Read More Pope: Access to Water is a Fundamental Human Right
via CNS: Unborn children would face greater health risks if the Environmental Protection Agency moves to rescind a rule regulating hazardous air pollutants emitted by power plants, said the chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees. The bishops argued in a March 22 statement that the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS,… Read More US Bishops: Trump’s EPA Rule Reversal Threatens the Unborn, Pregnant Women, and More
Dozens of Christian ethicists, including Millennial writers Marcus Mescher and Dan DiLeo, have signed a new statement on “Christian Ethics and the Ecological Emergency.” The statement begins: Human activity is now driving a complex, dynamic process of environmental destabilisation across the whole of God’s Earth, at a scale and pace unprecedented in human history. This… Read More New Statement on Christian Ethics and the Ecological Emergency
via the Vatican: When we speak of development we must always ask: Development of what? Development for whom? For too long the conventional idea of development has been almost entirely limited to economic growth. Indicators of national development have been based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) indices. This has led the modern economic system down… Read More Pope Francis on Development that Responds to the Cry of the Earth and Poor
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