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.
Health and Wellness
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Paul Farmer, Graham Greene and the politics of liberation
What a 1965 novel by Graham Greene taught a young Dr. Paul Farmer during his first years working in Haiti.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The key to a post-pandemic ‘new normal’? Solidarity.
As the world begins to emerge from the most recent surge of the Covid-19 pandemic, how do we return to normal? And what should normal mean?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Truck protest against vaccine mandates is polarizing Canada — and clergy have mixed reactions
The main body of protesters continued a diesel-rumbling siege of Parliament Hill, igniting fire pits on city streets and sounding truck horns at all hours, driving local residents to despair.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Suffering, faith and perseverance: Ross Douthat chronicles his struggle with Lyme disease
In “The Deep Places,” Ross Douthat relates how an experience of illness and suffering can lead to a search for answers to more transcendent questions, including the meaning of suffering and the gift of perseverance.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Archbishop Viganò’s ‘conspiracy theories’ about Covid-19 rebuked by Italian military chaplain
Italy’s Catholic military chaplain has pushed back strongly against calls by a former Vatican ambassador to resist Covid-19 vaccine mandates, saying the ambassador’s “conspiracy theories” were a source of confusion and disinformation.
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Pope Francis to tax collectors: Taxation done well is a sign of justice for the poor
Taxation “must favor the redistribution of wealth, looking out for the dignity of the poorest who risk always ending up crushed by the powerful,” the pope said in a meeting with members of Italy’s tax collection agency.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Father Rutilio Grande: the (future) patron saint of breaking mental health stigma?
Rutilio Grande bore mental health issues as his personal cross. Now he can become a patron saint for all Catholics who seek and deserve mental health care.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
In a medical first, a man received a heart transplant from a pig. What does Catholic bioethics have to say?
If this animal-to-human transplant proves successful, it offers the possibility of vastly augmenting the donor supply with organs harvested from genetically edited pigs or other animals.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The gift of burnout: How quitting my job allowed me to flourish
We should not have to empty ourselves for the company or college.