By ROBERT ROYAL | Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si (The Care for Our Common Home), was, even before its publication, being drawn into the usual partisan divisions. Unfortunate, for multiple reasons, not least because what may… Original Article

By Simcha Fisher | Laudato Si is here, and not a moment too soon. Any day now, all the pundits and politicians and armchair theologians were going to start feeling ashamed for going so berserk over an encyclical that hadn’t been … Continue reading →

By ROBERT ROYAL | Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si (The Care for Our Common Home), was, even before its publication, being drawn into the usual partisan divisions. Unfortunate, for multiple reasons, not least because what may… Original Article

By STEVEN D. GREYDANUS | What was the last movie I watched in such a sustained state of breathless, astonished discovery? I can’t think. Inside Out takes a simple if daring premise — a story about the world inside a … Continue reading →

By STEVEN D. GREYDANUS | What was the last movie I watched in such a sustained state of breathless, astonished discovery? I can’t think. Inside Out takes a simple if daring premise — a story about the world inside a … Continue reading →

By Dan Burke | “No one is tempted more than he is able to bear.” The purpose of the newest book in the Navigating the Interior Life book series, 30 Days with Teresa of Avila, is to reveal the unique … Continue reading →

By FATHER RAYMOND J. DE SOUZA | Laudato Si (The Care for Our Common Home) is more than an ecological encyclical. Pope Francis has given the Church and the world a document which addresses the full range of Catholic social … Continue reading →

By Edward Pentin | Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si was published today. Here below are guidance notes on the document, issued by the Vatican. Reflections on the document were also given at a launch at the Vatican today by Cardinal Peter… Original Article

By ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI/CNA/EWTN NEWS | VATICAN CITY — Several enthusiastic seminarians met with Benedict XVI at the Vatican Gardens on Tuesday — even though it is their exam time, they did not want to miss the chance to meet the … Continue reading →

By Joan Desmond | Out here in California, where a four-year drought has already resulted in the loss of an estimated 18,000 jobs in the state’s agricultural sector for the first half of 2015, Pope Francis’ climate-change encyclical resonates in a… … Continue reading →