Pope Francis

Select a Category Alternative economics, worker and family empowerment, the spirituality of work, the economy of sharing Art Care for Our Common Home Catholic imagination Catholic Social Teaching Christian Friendship Christian Persecution Community building, models or forms of community, radical hospitality Corporal & Spiritual Works of Mercy Daniel Schwindt Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, CW aims and means, spirituality Elias Crim Grace Potts Greg Guest Josh Brumfield Mark Gordon Matthew Cooper Mercy Michael Stafford Paul Grenier Peace, nonviolent resistance, conscience and conscientious objection Pope Francis Poverty, economic inequality, consumerism, unemployment, underemployment, living wage Racial Reconciliation Radical Christianity Stan Goff Uncategorized

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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...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

How I Became a Street Catholic

I'm a Boomer, a former Cold Warrior, and a Catholic convert who came into the...

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...