After the Virgin Mary, St. Francis of Assisi is probably Catholicism’s most popular saint. Sure, other saints do more practical things: St. Anthony can help...
Ecological justice
The ethics of meat consumption and vegetarian diets deserve a Catholic consideration. I suspect “Catholic” is not the first identity marker most people think...
“Purchasing is always a moral—and not simply an economic—act,” said Pope Francis, quoting from Benedict XVI’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Charity in...
What if you woke up one morning and everything and everyone you knew and loved was gone? What if it happened slowly over time? In Hulu’s new series The...
Every week, hands plunge into the earth at St. Benedict the African East Catholic Church in Englewood, a neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Around five...
At Light of Day Organics Farm and Tea Shop in Traverse City, Michigan, Angela Macke is attentive to the rhythms of creation. Through biodynamic farming, she...
The smell of horses and leather filled the air as I made the last harness adjustments, stepped behind the team of willing Belgians, and drove them to the...
The United States is experiencing an unprecedented oil and natural gas rush, but this rush is less about finding untapped reserves of these fossil fuels and...
Bureo is a native Chilean word meaning “waves.” A search online for sustainable skateboards, sunglasses, or bamboo utensil sets reveals Bureo—the company—in...
Pope Francis took major steps to offer some practical and spiritual sustenance to the idea of “integral development” that he promoted in his encyclical Laudato...
