This post by Eric Immel, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. I do, at times, consider leaving the Society of Jesus. Like when I hear a baby cry right at the end of the Eucharistic prayer, or unlock the doors of a neglected community car that isn’t mine, or wake up alone.
Pope Francis: “He created the world as a beautiful garden and asked us to care for it. But through sin, man has disfigured that natural beauty; through sin, man has also destroyed the unity and beauty of our human family, creating social structures which perpetuate poverty, ignorance, and corruption.”
Amy Davidson succinctly explains why so many people favor leaving Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill and replacing Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill: “Ever since the Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, announced, last month, that the next version of the ten would feature a woman, that has been the baffled… Read More Replace Andrew Jackson (Not Alexander Hamilton) with Harriet Tubman
Check out these recent articles from around the web: A moral commitment to end hunger by Faustine Wabwire: “An opportunity to steer the course of the entire world comes along only once in a generation—if that often. Looked at one way, we are at a crisis moment that should force us to act. But we… Read More Around the Web (Part 2)
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Here Are The Victims Of The Chattanooga Shooting by Buzzfeed News: “Four Marines — Thomas Sullivan, Skip Wells, David Wyatt, and Carson Holmquist— were identified as of Friday morning. A Navy sailor, Randall Smith, who was hurt in the shooting, died from his injuries on Saturday.”… Read More Around the Web (Part 1)
Pope Francis: “The Gospel presents Joseph as a just man, hard-working and strong. But he also shows great tenderness, which is not a mark of the weak but of those who are genuinely strong, fully aware of reality, and ready to love and serve in humility.”
Millennial writer Daniel DiLeo has a new post at Political Theology Today. He writes: Nearly one month after the release of Laudato Si’ (LS’), most commentators – myself included – are still trying to wrap their minds around the prophetic, difficult and sometimes unexpected elements of the Catholic Church’s first papal encyclical on ecology. Although… Read More Pope Francis, Carbon Credits, and a Carbon Tax
