via USCCB: After the introduction of the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019 (EICDA) yesterday, Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, welcomed the legislation as an important step forward in addressing climate change. “This bipartisan bill is a hopeful sign… Read More US Bishops Praise New Climate Change Bill
via Vatican News: You teach us that encountering one another does not mean having to look alike, or think the same way or do the same things, listening to the same music or wearing the same football jersey. No, not at all… The culture of encounter is a call inviting us to dare to keep… Read More The Culture of Encounter and the Dream Running Through Our Veins
Bishop John Stowe of the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky writes: I am ashamed that the actions of Kentucky Catholic high school students have become a contradiction of the very reverence for human life that the march is supposed to manifest. As such, I believe that U.S. Catholics must take a look at how our support… Read More Bishop Stowe: Pro-Lifers Should Not Sport Slogans of President Who Denigrates and Endangers Immigrants
Michael Gerson writes: If you believe that a fetus is a member of the human family from its first moment — and millions of Americans do — then opposition to abortion is inherently a social justice issue. It is the defense of the weak and voiceless against violence…. To be consistent, of course, you would… Read More The Pro-Life Movement: Consistency and Legitimacy vs. Embracing Trump
MSW writes: In short, the Catholic left has cared less about its own integrity and more about strengthening ties with Democrats on other issues. Sloppy moral reasoning has employed narrow factoids and slim, exceptional cases to promote indifference on the issue. A libertarianism of the left on social issues has become as pronounced, and as… Read More To be Consistent and Side with the Vulnerable, Progressive Catholics Must Defend the Unborn
In a statement on the government shutdown, Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston writes: Governing the democracy of the United States is always a challenging task. It requires not only intelligence, expertise and experience but also a capacity to collaborate, cooperate and the willingness to consider appropriate compromise at decisive moments. The present moment in our… Read More Cardinal Seán: End the Government Shutdown
Claire Giangravè writes: “Populism is an ancient malady. Even Christians have been faced with its force,” said Father Rocco D’ambrosio, a diocesan priest and professor of Political Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in an interview with Crux Jan. 10…. D’ambrosio spoke at a conference titled “Power and populisms” along with Vincenzo Buonomo, dean of… Read More Confronting the Malady of Populist Nationalism
