In Brazil, 12 million families live in slums. In September, members of favela ministries that exist in different cities met in Brasilia and officially created a nationwide Housing and Slums Pastoral Ministry.
Catholic Church in Brazil launches first nationwide pastoral outreach to slums
Despite new EPA rule to reduce toxic pollution, Catholic activist says fight to protect communities far from over
Sharon Lavigne has been called a modern-day Moses. But the perhaps unlikely environmental prophet — a 71-year-old retired special education teacher — doesn’t want to lead her neighbors out of St. James Parish, Louisiana. She said she just wants area industries — which lie in the 85-mile corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans ruefully nicknamed “Cancer Alley” — to stop poisoning them. So in 2018, Lavigne — a lifelong resident of St. James Parish and a member of St. James Church, a predominantly Black Catholic parish in the Diocese of Baton Rouge with a 250-year history — founded a faith-based environmental advocacy group, Rise St. James.
Is 2020 the year that gets young people to polls in bigger numbers?
Racial justice activism will motivate young people to go to the polls Nov. 3 is predicted by Steven Millies, a scholar who explores the Catholic Church’s relationship to politics.
‘Gaudete et Exsultate’ teaches us to make civic life a labor of love
Our engagement in politics is a mission in which our holiness of life is far more potent than mere activity.