John Gehring and Richard Wood have explained what is on the line in this week’s deliberations at the USCCB: Nearly two months after Pope Francis made his first visit to the United States, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops will set its strategic plans for the years ahead and refine a presidential election-year message to… Read More Will the Bishops Embrace or Ignore Pope Francis’ Agenda?
This post by Eric Immel, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. “Will you go out with me?” It’s a terrifying question once awkwardly muttered by romantically untried youths everywhere. No longer. I may have first uttered the words during a teen night at my local YMCA, or perhaps over my family’s landline on a… Read More Rethinking Chill
I just met an American seminarian studying to be a priest in Rome. When he was a child, his family illegally immigrated to the United States to flee violence and to find a better way of life. When he decided he wanted to become a priest, his bishop wasn’t able to send him to a… Read More Our Immigration System Should Not Keep Out the People (Including the Priests) We Need
Beirut last night. Baghad this morning. And Paris tonight. ISIS is on a mission to terrorize the entire world. But while they promote an ideology of hate, there are heroes rising up across the globe to offer a counter-witness of radical love. Tonight I broke bread with one of them: Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil,… Read More An Iraqi bishop willing to die for his flock
On my last night in Iraq and amidst the terrorist attacks in Baghdad, Beirut, and Paris, I joined other Christians in praying to Mary for peace. My time in the birthplace of civilization has given me a strong belief of how faith lived in the existential peripheries of the world can transform society. Despite their… Read More Hope and Prayer as I Depart from Iraq
Our prayers go out to the people of Paris in the wake of today’s horrific terrorist attacks, particularly the victims and their loved ones. We pray for all people who are victims of terrorism and mass murder and for all the refugees around the world who are fleeing similarly evil acts of brutality and savagery.… Read More Heavy Hearts and Prayers in the Wake of the Paris Attacks
Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras, a key advisor to Pope Francis and chair of his Council of Cardinals, recently spoke at Pope Francis’ Environmental Encyclical: Protecting the Planet and the Poor, an event cosponsored by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Georgetown Law Center’s Environmental Law Program and Climate Change… Read More The Climate Cardinal: Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez
