This post by Brendan Busse, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. My apologies for the headline. I’ve come to hate those ‘up-worthy’ internet burlesque artists who prey upon our need to know, our thirst for fulfillment, our fear of missing out, and our dis-ease with the slightest gap between us and the next big… Read More What Happens Next Will Totally Amaze You
At an event hosted today by Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, Pope Francis’s advisor Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras confirmed that Pope Francis’s upcoming encyclical will address the environment and poverty. He said: “It is not just on global warming. …The problems are more deep.” More updates to come.
Last week, Pope Francis delivered a message to the International Labour Conference (ILO). Here are some highlights: The dignity of work “At the dawn of creation, God made man the steward of his handiwork and charged him to cultivate and protect it. Human labour is part of that creation and continues God’s creative work. This… Read More Pope Francis on Work, Unemployment, Mass Migration, and Solidarity
Pope Francis: “At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.”
At his installation Mass as the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis said: I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be “protectors” of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and… Read More Breaking News: President calls for carbon cuts
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Pope Francis’ Holy Land Triumph by Michael Sean Winters: “When he was introduced to six victims of the Shoah, he bent down and kissed their hands. We are accustomed to the negative of that image, of people great and small bending over to kiss the pope’s… Read More Around the Web
Cardinal Walter Kasper on Pope Francis: “This pope is not a liberal pope. He is a radical pope! This pope goes back to the gospel.”
