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A leading contributor to climate change is the release of methane gas from livestock grazing in pastures and confined in feedlots around the globe. (iStock/dusanpetkovic)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Mary E. McGann
Pope Francis has called for Catholics to support principles of “total sustainability.” A meat industry that warms the planet, ravages forests and fouls our water is incompatible with those principles.
Women and children wait to board a bus heading to Przemysl after fleeing Ukraine, at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Marc Roscoe Loustau
Two million people have already fled Ukraine, many to European nations that resisted accepting refugees from the Middle East. Will this new crisis force a reckoning on the treatment of all displaced persons?
FaithShort Take
John F. Crosby
Alice von Hildebrand was one of the heroes of faith in our time. We should cherish her memory.
Hawk medium-range anti-aircraft missiles, manufactured by the U.S. company Raytheon. (iStock/ewg3D)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
John W. Miller
When war erupts, the weapons industry benefits from the fears that motivate politicians to budget more money for the military—and investors to sink more capital into armaments.
Pope Francis leads a meeting with representatives of bishops' conferences from around the world at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2021. The meeting came as the Vatican launched the process that will lead up to the assembly of the world Synod of Bishops in 2023. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithShort Take
Joshua J. Whitfield
Yes, the synod on synodality is off to a sluggish start, especially in the United States. But if we are brutally honest about what is broken in the church, we can still have a successful dialogue.
People line up to receive hot food in an improvised bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Drew Christiansen
Does the “responsibility to protect” doctrine call for Western action in Ukraine? Perhaps not through military intervention, but certainly in efforts toward recovery, reconstruction and reconciliation.