Here are highlights from Pope Francis’ recent speech at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome for World Food Day: The current situation demands greater responsibility on all levels, not only to guarantee the necessary production or equitable distribution of the fruits of the earth – this duty is taken for… Read More Pope Francis: To Reduce Hunger and Migration, Address Conflict and Climate Change

How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history:

Elizabeth Bruenig writes that evangelicals and Catholics have made their peace, and Catholics are paying the price: The close quarters produced a new breed of politically evangelicalized Catholic candidates and officeholders who have little use for the church’s social teaching (which includes support for organized labor , immigrants and the poor) but adhere vehemently to… Read More Why Catholic Politicians Trade Catholic Orthodoxy for Party Orthodoxy

via Vatican Radio: We know the great developments that have taken place in the field of disability over the last decades. The growth in awareness of the dignity of every person, especially the weakest, and how they have led to taking courageous positions to ensure the inclusion of those who live with different forms of… Read More Pope Francis Denounces Eugenic Tendency to Eliminate Children with Disabilities

via CNS: Greater inequality and a more rapid destruction of the environment “are not destiny nor even a historic constancy,” the pope told members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. “There have been periods in which, in some countries, inequalities diminished and the environment was better protected.”… In societies where profit is allowed to… Read More Pope Francis: Civilize the Market or Democracy Becomes Plutocracy

via Washington Post: Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III on Monday revealed charges against three former Trump campaign officials — former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, his longtime business partner Rick Gates and former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos — marking the first criminal allegations to come from probes into possible Russian influence in… Read More Three Trump Campaign Officials Charged by Special Counsel