Quote of the Day
Pope Francis: “Let us follow in the footsteps of Christ, especially by dedicating ourselves to our brothers and sisters in need.”
Don’t Rebuild the Same Broken Economy That Failed So Many Essential Workers
Michael Sandel writes: Mobilizing to confront the pandemic and, eventually, to reconstruct the shattered economy, requires not only medical and economic expertise but moral and political renewal. We need to ask a basic question that we have evaded over these last decades: What do we owe one another as citizens?… We need to better reward… Read More Don’t Rebuild the Same Broken Economy That Failed So Many Essential Workers
Drawing Near to Others: An Interview with Marcus Mescher on the “Ethics of Encounter”
At a recent national conference for ministry professionals, the emcee invited attendees to walk through a maze of advertising booths during an upcoming break in the schedule, telling them, “This morning, you heard about a theology of encounter. Now head over to the booths and encounter your publishing companies!” The comment is revealing for two… Read More Drawing Near to Others: An Interview with Marcus Mescher on the “Ethics of Encounter”
Why Does God Love Us?
Why does God love me? Why does God forgive sins? Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? Jesuit Autocomplete hosts Fr. Paddy Gilger and Fr. Eric Sundrup answer some of the Internet’s most-searched questions about God:
Cardinal Chito: Isolation Shows How Much We Need Other People
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and President of Caritas Internationalis, in Novena: The pandemic is making the suffering of vulnerable people – migrants and refugees, the elderly, the sick, the poor and unemployed – even deeper. We urge our governments to ensure access to healthcare and social… Read More Cardinal Chito: Isolation Shows How Much We Need Other People
Pope Francis: Life is of No Use if Not Used to Serve Others
via the Vatican: God saved us by serving us. We often think we are the ones who serve God. No, he is the one who freely chose to serve us, for he loved us first. It is difficult to love and not be loved in return. And it is even more difficult to serve if… Read More Pope Francis: Life is of No Use if Not Used to Serve Others
5 Tips for Finding God During the Corona Crisis
Millennial writer Patrick Manning writes: This moment is unlike anything that most of us have ever experienced. The tally of sick and deceased mounts higher every day. We turn on the news or look out our windows to see empty streets and darkened buildings. We are cut off from one another, passing our days in… Read More 5 Tips for Finding God During the Corona Crisis
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