A Laudato Si Week Reflection
During last week’s Laudato Si Week, Franciscan Action Network executive director Steve Schneck provided an excellent overview of the encyclical:
As ‘Laudato Si Year’ Begins, Pope Encourages Everyone to Protect the Earth and the Poor
via Vatican News: After praying the Regina Coeli on Sunday, Pope Francis recalled the 5th anniversary of his encyclical “Laudato si’: On the Care for our Common Home.” He said the document sought to “call attention to the cry of the Earth and of the poor.” The Pope invited everyone to take part in the… Read More As ‘Laudato Si Year’ Begins, Pope Encourages Everyone to Protect the Earth and the Poor
Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: I Don’t Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore by Anne Helen Petersen: “The old way wasn’t just unsustainable for millions of Americans. It was also deeply unsatisfying. Consumer sentiment — and behavior — suggests we’re hungry, even desperate, for something different.” A Telling Spell of Catholic ‘Leadership’… Read More Around the Web
Quote of the Day
Pope Francis: “May the sick always be shown love in their fragility and respected in their inviolable dignity.”
Second Line Remembering: Toward a Theology of Zoom Liturgies
Our Predicament In these past few months, which have unpropitiously—or, perhaps, fortuitously and providentially—included the holiest days of the Christian year—the Triduum—American Catholics have found themselves in the unusual predicament of having regular access to Mass unavailable to them. Even in typing out that overlong sentence, it becomes clear how narrowly—geographically and historically speaking—widespread access… Read More Second Line Remembering: Toward a Theology of Zoom Liturgies
What Possessions Do We Value The Most?
Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: Until recently, it has been easy in our society — at least for those of us who are not facing violence or abject poverty on a daily basis — to go about our days as though death is scheduled for a distant future, focusing on our daily lives and perhaps… Read More What Possessions Do We Value The Most?
Quote of the Day
Pope Francis: “All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own culture, experience, involvements and talents.” #LaudatoSi5
