Five reasons Catholic communities should care about cleaning up the environment. 1. You don’t have to believe in climate change to believe in its...
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Parishes are finding that reducing their carbon footprint is not only an environmental issue but a spiritual one, too. Parishioners at Mary Immaculate Church...
A Franciscan environmental activist recycles some ancient traditions for modern use. [Read more about St. Francis, patron of ecology.] Hundreds of years before...
On Aug. 6, 1976 Dorothy Day was invited to address the World Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia. The date of her talk was, of course, the Feast of the...
You have spoken out strongly in favor of canonizing Dorothy Day. How is she a saint for today? Dorothy herself had a tremendous veneration for the saints. Her...
Simply defined, to sin is to say “no” to God. It is a rejection of God’s free gifts as well as the grace-filled relationship that God always offers. It is to...
We need the example of this woman who tried to live the gospel in the modern world. Imagine this: A grumpy associate pastor rushes into the sacristy to prepare...
If you want peace, cultivate creation,” Pope Benedict XVI said in his 2010 World Day of Peace reflection, arguably a message not just for the new year...
Full of Grace by Christine Watkins (Ave Maria Press, 2010) Christine Watkins grew up without religion and without a belief in God. Her parents had told her...
Crows (Rykodisc, 2010) Allison Moorer Last night I warned a college writing class against assuming that the "speaker" of a poem was in fact the poet...
