It all started with a jerry can. A classmate and friend of mine started her own non-profit organization to fight the water crisis by implementing clean water systems in places where people do not have access to clean water. I had no clue what the water crisis was, and it seemed like a problem that… Read More One Person, One Small Action Can Change the World
Pope Francis has announced the creation of a World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation to be celebrated on September 1st each year. Pope Francis explained:
Check out these recent articles from around the web: When Work Fails Families by David Lapp: “Whenever we debate the merits and problems of contemporary capitalism, we need the accounts of flesh-and-blood people like Lance to better understand how the economy we have built is serving (or failing) ordinary workers and the families that they… Read More Around the Web (Part 2)
Check out these recent articles from around the web: On social justice, Francis isn’t rethinking so much as recycling by John Allen: “That’s not to say he isn’t adding some original details, just as previous popes did, but at the big-picture level, his teaching on social justice is about continuity, not rupture. To put the… Read More Around the Web (Part 1)
Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article at Time. He writes: It isn’t just Kasich’s words that connected him with the 78-year-old Bishop of Rome. Kasich’s policy decisions during the past five years have reflected the pope’s plea that politicians be “genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the… Read More Will John Kasich Be the GOP’s Pope Francis Candidate?
This is obviously a short post. Somewhere between Donald Trump’s hilarious and horrifying moments in the GOP presidential primary debate last night, Donald Trump actually touched upon the structural injustice that is undermining the democratic nature of American government, creating tremendous obstacles to achieving policies that would promote the common good. This should be one… Read More The Wisdom of Donald Trump
“People may well have a growing ecological sensitivity but it has not succeeded in changing their harmful habits of consumption which, rather than decreasing, appear to be growing all the more. A simple example is the increasing use and power of air-conditioning. The markets, which immediately benefit from sales, stimulate ever greater demand. An outsider… Read More Pope Francis, Our Energy Addiction, and the Socially Disruptive Virtue of Temperance
