Tish Harrison Warren writes: For a religious holiday, All Saints’ Day is surprisingly earthy. It reminds me that for all of us — so-called religious or non-religious people alike — faith and spirituality are shaped in profoundly relational ways. No one is a “freethinker.” None of us come to what we believe on our own.… Read More A Reminder on All Saints’ Day

via the Vatican: I also want to refer to a silent pandemic that has been afflicting children, teenagers and young people of every social class for years; and which I believe, in this time of isolation, has spread further still. It is the stress of chronic anxiety, linked to various factors such as hyperconnectivity, disorientation… Read More Pope Francis on Building  ‘Bridges of Love’

Millennial writer Daniel R. DiLeo, Sabrina Danielsen, and write Emily E. Burke: The publication of Laudato Si’ was a landmark moment in the fight against climate change. Secular environmentalists were encouraged to see such a prominent global leader devote one of his most powerful tools to their cause. Many American Catholics hoped the encyclical would inspire… Read More Most US Bishops Silent on Climate Change, New Study Shows

via the Vatican: In a video message, Pope Francis thanked them for their “enthusiasm” in carrying out “the mission to give a new soul to the economy”. He highlighted the urgent need to change the present economic paradigm, as the world struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, which, he noted, has dramatically “amplified the deep inequalities”… Read More Pope Francis: Give a New Soul to the Economy, Tackle Inequality

In an interview with America, Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego says: In recent years, major figures and programs within EWTN have reflected with ever greater prominence a systematic oppositional tone to many of the major priorities of this pontificate, often accompanied with caricature and scorn. The continual attention to the worldview of Archbishop [Carlos… Read More Bishop McElroy on the Disunity and Distortions Coming from EWTN

via the NY Times: The world has gained a new weapon in the war on malaria, among the oldest known and deadliest of infectious diseases: the first vaccine shown to help prevent the disease. By one estimate, it will save tens of thousands of children each year. Malaria kills about half a million people each… Read More First Malaria Vaccine Approved by WHO

Pope Francis, via the Vatican: Without freedom, there can be no true humanity, for human beings were created free in order to be free. The tragic chapters of your country’s history provide a great lesson: whenever freedom was attacked, violated and suppressed, humanity was disfigured and the tempests of violence, coercion and the elimination of… Read More Freedom Demands Personal Responsibility