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May 2020

May 04, 2020

Shalom versus Pax: On Recovering Ivan Illich

Faith Seeking Conviviality, a new book from Samuel Ewell, a U.K.-based social entrepreneur, is grounded...

April 2020

April 13, 2020

How to Understand the Great Silence We’re In

The unimaginable has occurred. Not only in the form of a deadly virus sweeping the...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

A Solitary Figure in St. Peter’s Square

Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our streets and our cities; it has taken...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

We Drink from Our Own Wells

A question for these troubled times in the Church and perhaps in our personal faith...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

A New Catholic Voice for a New Economy

Laudato Si’: perhaps the most important papal document since Rerum Novarum, Pope Francis’ “eco-encyclical” arrived...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

After the Amazonian Synod: New Winds Blowing

While I may be in a distinct minority among American Catholics, my spirits are rising....

October 21, 2019

The Indigenous Wisdom of Buen Vivir at the Synod

From the grateful welcome given to the Three Magi (i.e., pagan wise men) at Bethlehem...

October 14, 2019

A Litmus Test for Integral Ecology: Amazonia

What’s going on this month at the Amazonian Synod in Rome, we need to remember,...

October 07, 2019

From Aparecida to the Amazonian Synod

The Marian spirituality of the Church in Latin America is everywhere to see, particularly in...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

“The Death of the Forest is the End of Our Life”

Wilson Pinheiro, murdered in 1980. Vicente Canas, stabbed to death in 1987. Chico Mendez, assassinated...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Francis meets TED, Talks About ‘Solidarity’

How wonderful it would be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were...

April 05, 2016

Art For An Integral Ecology

A. Vonn Hartung is a Puerto Rico-based artist who works across a variety of media, including...