Cardinal George Pell said that among the recent popes he was closest to Benedict XVI. Pell spoke during a webinar as part of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross' "The Church Up Close" series for journalists.
Faith Seeking Understanding: St. Francis called all creatures — and not merely those nonhuman animals we classify as sentient, but rocks and trees alike — his sisters and brothers because, in a real sense, they are.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Warren's transformation; the purpose of a corporation; white evangelicals' psychological baggage; Australia's Catholic meltdown.
NCR interview: "If we don't get this issue right, in the end none of the other issues are going to matter, because human dignity will have been destroyed as we know it if our planet is destroyed."
The passenger to my right asked what was bringing me to Nebraska. "A conference about climate change," I told him, an answer that prompted a series of observations on his part that suggested recognition that something big is happening but uncertainty about the extent of the problem.
Distinctly Catholic: Underneath the tiring and tiresome drama of government as entertainment, the administration's decisions are undermining the common good.
Avenue Hoche, one of the tree-lined roads radiating out from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, seems like an ideal place to locate a church for foreigners. But that location also put the street in the middle of France's often turbulent politics.
From Where I Stand: To address climate change, nothing much can happen to the world around us until something happens within us that is beyond money and power, that seeks global harmony.
