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FaithNews
Thomas J. Reese
False prophets tell us that global warming will not happen, microplastics do not cause cancer, guns will protect us, and the poor need to suffer to motivate them to work.
The first provisional results for the European Parliament elections are announced at the European Parliament building in Brussels June 9, 2024. (OSV News photo/Piroschka van de Wouw, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Hargaden
The elections results suggest that European states will set stricter policies on immigration, raising levels of despair among asylum seekers and hundreds of thousands of people living without official status across Europe.
The first 100 percent Brazilian oil platform, the P-51 produces about 180 thousand barrels of oil and 6 million cubic meters of gas per day when operating at full load. Photo courtesy of Divulgação Petrobras / ABr (Wikicommons)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Filipe Domingues
The most controversial blocks for exploration are located offshore at the mouth of the Amazon River basin. Petrobras, a government-controlled oil company, is pushing to begin preliminary drilling in search of new oil reserves.
Arts & CulturePodcasts
Jesuitical
On Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley speak with Andrea Von Kampen about her new album “Sister Moon,” which draws on the spiritual and ecological wisdom of St. Francis of Assisi and Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si’.”
Arts & CultureIdeas
Christine Lenahan
This year’s Met Gala (mostly) failed to push fashion boundaries—or imagine a more environmentally conscious future.
The sun rises above an array of rooftop solar panels,
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Daniel R. DiLeo
Pope Francis says that responses to climate change “have not been adequate.” This Earth Day, both clergy and laypeople must repent of our sins of omission and work toward decarbonization.