With the almost weekly news stories highlighting the impact climate change is having on our planet, we are invited to deeper reflection on our relationship to the earth, to creation, to the environment.
Our well-being depends on the well-being of God’s creation
We must not sit on the sidelines in fight against poverty
Followers of Jesus Christ practice the preferential option for the poor
On immigration issue, our silence gives consent
Now it is time for the rest of us — parishioners, homilists and parishes — to support our bishops on this issue and to live out our Catholic social teachings with a new urgency. It is time to let our leaders in Washington know that we do not accept their attack on millions of people seeking only to live a dignified life.
Pursuing an effective style of politics for peace
Nonviolent political actions are the only ones that can bring about this peace.
No one benefits when public discourse lacks respect, civility
Our nation is deeply divided along a number of political, economic and social fault lines. As a people, we seem to have given in to a form of discourse and argumentation that lacks basic respect and civility. We may not like the negative political ads or the candidates arguing and debating as if facing mortal enemies, but we are part of the culture that makes it possible.
Welcoming the stranger: thinking globally, acting locally
His name is Omran. He sits motionless in an Aleppo ambulance after his family home was bombed. His silent stare screams at anyone looking: “I am a human being! Why can’t you see me?”
In gun debate, individual rights can’t outweigh common good
Catholic social teaching offers a number of points related to this issue and this debate.
Angry about income disparities? It’s time to push for change
We hear a lot these days about angry Americans. I am not sure who they are, nor do I know all their reasons for being angry. […]