via the Boston Globe: Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley met with more than 40 interfaith leaders Tuesday to discuss strategies to defeat a state ballot measure that would legalize recreational use of marijuana. The Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston warned that making marijuana legal would exacerbate the opioid epidemic, entice more children to use drugs, hurt… Read More Cardinal Sean Leads Interfaith Fight against Marijuana Legalization

In a time when Jesus’ nation was marred by bitter political and religious divisions, when Jews and Samaritans regarded each other with mutual distrust and disdain, he told a famous parable. Were he to tell a similar parable today, it might go something like this: (If you identify as a Democrat, read the text as… Read More An Election Time Parable

Pope Francis recently addressed vanity in one of his homilies: Greed, vanity, and pride are the roots of all evils…. The vanity that makes us swell up. The vanity that does not have long life, because it is like a soap bubble. The vanity that does not give us true gain. What profit comes to… Read More Pope Francis on Vanity, “an Osteoporosis of the Soul”

via Vatican News: The annual World Food Day is being observed this Sunday October 16th and has as its theme “the climate is changing.” In a message issued Friday to mark the occasion, Pope Francis said everyone has a responsibility to protect the planet for future generations…. The Pope said that this theme, “leads us… Read More Pope Francis: To Fight Hunger, Combat Climate Change

That journalists, in carrying out their work, may always be motivated by respect for truth and a strong sense of ethics:

As the Church’s opposition to the death penalty grows stronger, a greater emphasis seems to be on the presumed inherent incompatibility of the death penalty with mercy toward the individual person facing execution, rather than its impact on justice or the common good. Depending on one’s theological views, this may be seen as a positive… Read More The Death Penalty is Fundamentally Unjust