Category: Social Justice
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The New “Mass for the Care of Creation”: When “better than nothing” simply is “not good enough”
TERESA BERGER — What remains is a largely anthropocentric posture embodied in the “Mass for the Care of Creation”: we humans should care for creation.
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Love, Fraternity, and Care for Our Common Home
NATHANIEL MARX — In his last testament, Pope Francis left a prayer for our hearts.
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Love for Love
NATHANIEL MARX — Pope Francis says the best way to receive love from the heart of Jesus is to spread it.
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Actions and Words of Love
NATHANIEL MARX — Attention is the heart of Jesus’s love, Pope Francis explains in chapter two of Dilexit Nos.
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This Is Not America
TIMOTHY BRUNK — Every land of their birth [is] as a land of strangers.
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Human Dignity / Immigration / Liturgy
TIMOTHY BRUNK — The root reason for human dignity lies in man’s call to communion with God.
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Pray for Pope Francis
KATHARINE E. HARMON — Pope Francis remains hospitalized for double pneumonia. Will we continue to pray for the most vulnerable among us?
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The Genesis of a Jubilee Year of Hope
ANDRENIQUE ROLLE — Pope Francis’ 2025 prayer intentions address global and spiritual concerns during the Jubilee Year of Hope. Also in his message for the 58th World Day of Peace he calls for forgiveness freedom and systemic change to promote justice and human well-being.
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The Feast of the Holy Innocents: martyrs as victims or victors?
LIZETTE LARSON — Are martyrs victors – bearing their palms and wearing their crowns through their deaths in Christ, or are they victims in and of themselves – within a popular piety sense that they represent themselves, dying, rather than joined to Christ?