Some of us take for granted the most precious resource of all. Lack of water harms families not only in the Third World, but also here at home. It’s 9 a.m. in...
Ecological justice
Reported stories, essays, and critical reviews dealing with ecological justice and our relationship with the rest of creation.
As the bee population declines, we can either listen to the buzz or feel the sting. For years scientists have been puzzling over a vast die-off of bees in the...
“We’ve gotten away from the real meaning of food, and the power of food,” Michael Pollan told us in a December 2013 interview. The famous food author has...
Movies can help us find perspective on our own existence by taking us to infinity and beyond. Hollywood and the film industry have been called many things...
At many Catholic colleges, an environmental revolution is under way. Out with the ubiquitous plastic water bottles, the reams of wasted paper, the showers that...
So-called “cheap” energy sources will have a high cost for future generations. We have been told that we live in a threshold age of energy production, an era...
There’s something appropriate about turning 40 in a place where you might get eaten by a grizzly. The mountains don’t care about you,” says the forest ranger...
Students at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia worked together to construct a rain garden outside of their library. The idea took root to help reduce...
Editors’ note: Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors...
Care for all human life begins with protecting our planet. When Cardinal Joseph Bernardin proposed a “consistent ethic of life” 30 years ago, he argued that to...
