I knew what this day would be about: the encyclical. This day that really started earlier this week with a leak. This day that truly began with a couple years of rumors of a document […]
Category: Environment
God, Darwin, and David Barash: A Response to Dan Horan
This morning I read a very intriguing blog post written by my colleague and a friend of many here at Daily Theology, Dan Horan, O.F.M., of the blog Dating God: Franciscan Spirituality for the 21st […]
Deep Resurrection: The Martyrdom and Resurrection of Creation in Our Day
By Christine McCarthy The Long View of History: From Eternity to the History of Time Fox’s reboot of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is an experience not to be missed. […]
Water and Catholic Social Teaching – quotes for today
March 22nd is World Water Day – the day that the international community commemorates one of our most important natural resources. Sadly, the reality of water issues in the world is sobering. Millions of people […]
An Astronaut’s Perspective on the Second Vatican Council and Mission
Being one of the first human beings to orbit the planet most certainly brings a unique perspective to all aspects of human life, including faith and ethics. Many of the first astronauts and cosmonauts who […]
The Moral Imperative to Act for Climate Justice
Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—a body of eminent and respected scientists established by the world’s governments in 1988—released its Fifth Assessment Report on the state of climate change. The report is a chilling […]
Confronting Violence: Navy Yard Edition, with Habakkuk.
habakkuk one. Yesterday, in the wake of yet another mass shooting brought on by a mentally-unstable person with wide access to semi-automatic weapons, I felt powerless. I prayed, I fell quiet. Oh God, if the […]
Happy Are the Poor. (Yes. Really.)
Just days after his election the Cardinal-Formerly-Known-As-Bergoglio commented that he made the unprecedented choice of “Francis” for his papal name because he was inspired by St. Francis of Assisi, whom he calls “the man of […]
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