I became a vegetarian, and I am now thinking about becoming a vegan. In this discernment, I see God staring back at me.
Environment
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
7 years after ‘Laudato Si”: How Catholic universities are amplifying Pope Francis’ call to heal our common home
“Laudato Si’” reveals global ecological challenges that threaten our very existence. Catholic universities cannot wait to embrace clean energy and help build a sustainable world.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Turf is one of the worst polluting fossil fuels. The Irish turf-burning industry could learn something from Pope Francis
Destroying bogland is the Irish equivalent of burning the Amazon.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Is inflation just telling us that our way of life is too expensive?
Our natural impulse is to do whatever it takes to keep gasoline and other prices low. But should it be cheap to further endanger our planet?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Nearly 2 billion people can’t count on clean water at hospitals. The Catholic Church can help.
Sister Adela Orea finally got a clean water source for her hospital in Chiapas, Mexico. But should it take a tenacious sister and years of persistence for a health care facility to get safe water?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
6 ways a plant-based diet can help us meet Pope Francis’ ‘Laudato Si’’ challenge
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.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Urban planning can facilitate friendship — and the Catholic Church can help
We need a new image of what it means to be a good neighbor.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: In a dystopian future, a family navigates grief in the midst of political and environmental upheaval
The latest novel by Richard Powers, “Bewilderment,” is a meditation on love for our planet as well as our individual love for one another.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
It’s not easy being green: Ireland is failing to respond to the climate crisis
Movies set in Ireland rarely omit the trope of the aerial shot of rolling green fields. After all, it is the Emerald Isle. Or is it?
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Netflix’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ shows us how not to make a climate change movie
In the end, what undermines “Don’t Look Up” is exactly what it condemns: a lack of humanity.