Jeanie Hannaman

By Staff, Catholic Culture - Pope Francis received 25 CEOs and urged them to “place the environment and the earth at the center of your attention and responsibility.”... “We are living in a time of serious environmental crisis that depends on many individuals and factors, among which are the economic and business choices of the past and present,” the Pope explained. “It is no longer enough merely to comply with the laws of states, which are proceeding too slowly: we need to innovate by anticipating the future, with courageous and forward-looking choices that can be imitated.”

By Fr. Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J., The Catholic Thing - In the late 1960s, Fr. Richard McBrien, future president of the Catholic Theological Society and long-time Chair of the Department of Theology at Notre Dame, declared that the Catholic Church had gotten out of “the salvation business.”  Though most people wouldn’t have put it so crudely, McBrien was expressing a view that remains enormously influential in Catholic theology and pastoral life.  In my own theological education, I often found that the question “What is the mission of the Church?” provoked waffling or embarrassment.

By Kevin Wells, David Lukinovich, YouTube - A group of Louisianians went on pilgrimage with 3,000 of Mexico's poorest teenage girls at Villa de Las Niñas in Chalco, Mexico. For five days, they saw a bishop, Bishop Joseph Strickland, meld In persona Christi with the wounds of children and a Franciscan friar, Fr. Clifford Hennings, return to his roots of poverty and love for the forsaken.