Posts Tagged ‘Economic Justice’
The Amazon: A Global Treasure
The Amazon: A Global Treasure The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest, covering an area larger than the continental United States. It houses one-third of the Earth’s plant and animal species and produces one-fifth of all its fresh water. Like all rainforests, it helps regulate the global climate and is ... Read more
“The Moral Measure of this Budget Debate” Part 1. The Catholic concern
Early in May the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops wrote a letter to Congress expressing their concern with regards to the budget debate. In this letter they offered a creative and moral challenge to congress to design “a budget that reduces future deficits, protects poor and vulnerable people, advances the common good, and promotes ... Read more
Rerum Novarum and the Catholic legacy of Economic Justice
The current budget battle between the two dominant American political parties involves two familiar, age-old, disagreements on how to provide prosperity for as many people as possible. From the political forces on the right we have a firm belief that economic growth happens through a free and unregulated market system. This tradition comes to us ... Read more
Twenty Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Be Ingenious, Prayerful, and a little Crafty
Lectionary Readings: Amos 8:4-7. Condemnations of social injustices which trample upon the needy. 1 Timothy 2:1-8. Prayers are requested for peace, peace with those in authority, between races and nations, among the disciples of Jesus, just as there is peace between God the Father, the mediator Jesus and the entire human family. Luke 16:1-13. The ... Read more
Passionist JPIC Advocacy Update
Throughout the year the Passionist office for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation has worked on issues of social concern. It is an objective of the office to promote advocacy on these issues especially where they impact our community’s concerns or spirituality. During the spring members of our community engaged in a number of ... Read more
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Feeding yourself entirely on his Divine Will”
Lectionary Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23. Vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! For what profit are all the toil and anxiety of heart? Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11. Set your heart on what pertains to higher realms. Your life is hidden with Christ in God. You are formed anew in the image of the Creator. Luke 12:13-21. ... Read more
The “Consistent Ethic of Life” within the Global Economy: Chapter 2 of Caritas In Veritate
“Charity in Truth” is the latest encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI. This encyclical continues the tradition of Catholic Social Thought by addressing the issue of the Global Economic Crisis, Development, and Poverty. Yet there is a marked difference in this social encyclical that we who are Catholics in America need to attentive to. Pope Benedict ... Read more
Compassionate Capitalism
Financial Times recently offered an insert magazine on “the Future of Capitalism.” This debate brought in great economist such as Alan Greenspan, Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Gary Becker and others. These economist shared different perspectives with regards to where the emphasize for a new model of global Capitalism should be. But I considered these differences minor compared to ... Read more
Globalization and the Passion
Globalization is a priori neither good nor bad. It is what people make of it. What is at stake is the quality of globalization. Likewise what is at stake is the quality of the contributions we bring. -Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, 2002 These comments by Archbishop ... Read more
Lectionary Reflection: Second sunday of Easter
Readings: Acts 4:32-35 1 John 5:1-6 John 20:19-31 Thoughts for your consideration: by Fr. John Bucki, SJ Today’s scriptures offer at least three connections to Catholic Social Teaching: The first reading from Acts reminds us of the commitment by early Christian community to the communal life. They shared whatever they had and held all their ... Read more
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The Amazon: A Global Treasure
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Protect our Coast from Oil Spills
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Lenten Reflections
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Stand with Starving Children Around the World
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Our Lenten Project of Life
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