Meghan Clark writes: Consider, for example, the rose window: a massive, intricate mixture of colors and shapes all forming a singular circle. For its creators the rose window was not just art but a symbol of mathematical perfection. The circle is a shape with no beginning and no end, intended to draw our imagination into… Read More A Circle That Excludes No One
Millennial Catholic Susan Reynolds offers some recommendations for summer reading (and resources): First, Dr. Reynolds suggests Jean Vanier’s Becoming Human (Paulist Press, 2008). Vanier, who died in May at age 90, was the founder of L’Arche (French for “the ark”), the global network of small communities in which persons with and without intellectual disabilities live… Read More Summer Reading and Resources
Highlights from Pope Francis’ message for the World Day of the Poor: How many times do we see poor people rummaging through garbage bins to retrieve what others have discarded as superfluous, in the hope of finding something to live on or to wear! They themselves become part of a human garbage bin; they are… Read More Pope Francis: The Poor Save Us
via KVIA: El Paso’s Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz, along with clergy from the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez, led what they called a “Faith Action” at the U.S.-Mexico Border on Thursday afternoon to protest what they called the “devastating consequences of inhumane border policies.” Bishop Seitz crossed the Lerdo International Bridge (Stanton Street Bridge) on foot to accompany… Read More Bishop Seitz Protests Trump Immigration Policies at Border Bridge
Here are some highlights of a recent address by Pope Francis: Today’s ecological crisis, especially climate change, threatens the very future of the human family. This is no exaggeration. For too long we have collectively failed to listen to the fruits of scientific analysis and “doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or… Read More Pope Francis: The Poor Suffer the Worst Impacts of the Climate Crisis
via USCCB: Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, joins Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of Austin, Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration, in calling on the federal government to hear the cry of the poor and vulnerable. Their joint statement follows: “We join with our Holy Father Pope… Read More US Bishops Denounce Appalling and Unacceptable Treatment of Migrants
Heidi Schlumpf writes: The common good means “we belong to each other,” said Meghan J. Clark, associate professor of moral theology at St. John’s University in New York and a faculty expert for the Holy See’s Mission to the United Nations. “That’s not just something we’re supposed to do, but how we’re supposed to be… Read More Building the Common Good is not a Side Project
