Every summer, my family and I spend a couple of weeks driving across the country to visit destinations we have never been to before. Last July, our annual road...
Ecological justice
Reported stories, essays, and critical reviews dealing with ecological justice and our relationship with the rest of creation.
The images of human suffering before nature’s impassive course were riveting, if heartbreaking. After days of torrential rains, thousands were in flight from...
1. Commemorate the people whose land your church is on. Shantha Ready Alonso says that parishes can start working toward creation justice by being mindful of...
For Shantha Ready Alonso, the fight for environmental justice goes back to the 15th century, to the doctrine of discovery, a series of papal bulls that started...
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...
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...
