Many Americans think of their country as a “Christian nation.” Yet the teachings of Jesus are virtually nonexistent in the way we treat other people. Characteristically, the Pope, a deeply compassionate and humanitarian figure, is unhappy about this. Perhaps unhappy …
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From PoliticalFlare: “Shockingly Angry Pope Francis Berates Western Anti-Immigrant Attitudes, ‘It’s Disgusting, Sinful, Criminal!’”
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Pope Francis: A Man for the Age of Greed and Selfishness
Pope Francis–a breath of fresh air for a world so headed the wrong way. Right-wing populism breeds hate and tribalism, and unbridled capitalism promotes competition and consumption. All the while, this man of good will offers thoughts of peace that …
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To Every Thing There Is a Season–Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
What happens when the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics divest their portfolios from fossil fuels (and, of course, weapons of war)? It appears that we’re about to find out. In his letter to all Catholic Bishops, “Laudato Si,” Pope Francis urges …
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Wisdom from Pope Francis
Isn’t Pope Francis a wonderful counterbalancing force to the hatred and ignorance we find all around us? Makes one wonder what life on Earth would be like if we had national leaders such as this giant of the spirit.
Hats Off to Pope Francis
It could be said that the Catholic Church still has far to go with respect to cleaning itself up. I prefer to look at this from the reverse perspective, and acknowledge how far the institution has come in just the …
Walls, Bridges, and Sustainability
If you copy and paste “Walls vs. Bridges” into Google, you’ll be reading for a very long time about the origins and current meaning of this phrase. Summarizing the discussion in present-day world politics, it comes down to two major opposing …
Pope Francis: Global Warming Caused by “Short-Sighted” Human Activity
The miracle of Pope Francis is his eagerness to jump into political issues and advocate so adamantly for humanitarian causes. Before his ordination, the changes through which the Catholic Church had gone over the past 1600 years could have been …
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An Exercise in Alternative Science
There seems to be some sort of detente between religion and science at this point in Western Civilization, largely brought on by the arrival of Pope Francis on the scene, with his high-impact humanism, one that borders on the secular.
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Pope Francis: Jesus Doesn’t Like Hypocrisy
There has never been a more politically involved leader of the Catholic Church than Pope Francis, and, the same time, anyone who chided his followers as ferociously. Francis points out that, to Jesus, there is no greater sin than hypocrisy, …
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Are Religion and Science Burying the Hatchet?
Here’s something that will raise the hackles of the religious right: Pope Francis has declared that the theories of evolution and the Big Bang are consistent with the Catholic faith. “When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk …
