STORIES Building the Beloved Community: Jesus, Josiah Royce, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Prescription for a Healthy Society Sep 10, 2017 | Blog, UncategorizedBy Jeff Ritterman, MD Image courtesy of Vivien Feyer* Dr. Martin Luther King popularized the notion of the “Beloved Community.” King envisioned the Beloved Community as a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and love of one’s fellow human beings. As explained... Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sep 5, 2017 | UncategorizedLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in... Blog Post Title Aug 30, 2017 | UncategorizedLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 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On the Universal Destination of Goods Jun 19, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesAn excerpt from Nathan Schneider, in America Magazine and at the P2p Foundation, on the Universal Destination of Goods -- June 2017 Natural Law and the Tax Code The latest edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church contains, among its many now-peculiar-sounding... Coral reefs, life, food, and oxygen at risk May 25, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesBy Dahr Jamail, Excerpt from Truthout, 16 May 2017. Coral Reefs Could All Die Off by 2050 When he was six years old, Dean Miller already knew he wanted to be a marine biologist. At that time, growing up in Australia, the world of marine biology seemed both... What does “well below 2 C” mean, and what are some of the issues with it? May 14, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesBy Glen Peters, on Cicero, March 2017 The Paris Agreement calls to hold the increase in the global average temperature to “well below 2°C”. What on earth does that mean? The ambition of the Paris Agreement has become well-known: Holding the increase in the global... The Essential Message of Laudato Si’ – Cardinal Peter Turkson – Message to Bishops Worldwide, from Portugal in February 2016 Jan 25, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesThe Essential Message of Laudato Si’ shared by Cardinal Turkson: Message to Bishops Worldwide, from Portugal in February 2016. Feel free to print and use the google doc (2 pages double-sided) at your parish: Everyone must act responsibly to save our world! All human... Summary highlights from 1491 and 1493, by Charles Mann Jan 25, 2017 | Blog, Member OrganizationHuman populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously... Insight and encouragement from St. Catherine of Siena Jan 22, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesCatherine of Siena by Sigrid Undset (2009), references are to the kindle version. “Daughter, do you know who you are and who I am? If you know these two things you will be very happy. You must know that you are that which is not, but I am That Which Is. If your soul... Summary highlights from No Shortcuts: Organizing in the New Gilded Age Jan 20, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesNo Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey (this is a book for workers but there is a lot we can draw from it) My interest, borne out by the empirical cases that follow, is in understanding the power structures of ordinary people and... Summary highlights from The Great Work: Our Way into the Future by Thomas Berry Jan 19, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesFr. Thomas Berry educated and inspired many. His last book, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future, was certainly read by many of those who worked on Laudato Si'. It remains a source of guidance and consideration. What follows are excerpts from this classic that... Lazarus, Come Forth: How Jesus Confronts the Culture of Death and Invites Us into the New Life of Peace Jan 18, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesTwo years ago, the Global Catholic Climate Movement came together around the 1.5 C petition and in anticipation of the pope's encyclical. Taken together with his previous Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, and other papal documents and bishops' conference... The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Berlin Family Lectures) by Amitav Ghosh Jan 3, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesWhy does literature not deal with climate change or global change, except rarely or in the outposts of climate/science fiction, set in the future? What does Laudato Si' tell us about a way forward? 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Building the Beloved Community: Jesus, Josiah Royce, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Prescription for a Healthy Society Sep 10, 2017 | Blog, UncategorizedBy Jeff Ritterman, MD Image courtesy of Vivien Feyer* Dr. Martin Luther King popularized the notion of the “Beloved Community.” King envisioned the Beloved Community as a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and love of one’s fellow human beings. As explained...
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On the Universal Destination of Goods Jun 19, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesAn excerpt from Nathan Schneider, in America Magazine and at the P2p Foundation, on the Universal Destination of Goods -- June 2017 Natural Law and the Tax Code The latest edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church contains, among its many now-peculiar-sounding...
Coral reefs, life, food, and oxygen at risk May 25, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesBy Dahr Jamail, Excerpt from Truthout, 16 May 2017. Coral Reefs Could All Die Off by 2050 When he was six years old, Dean Miller already knew he wanted to be a marine biologist. At that time, growing up in Australia, the world of marine biology seemed both...
What does “well below 2 C” mean, and what are some of the issues with it? May 14, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesBy Glen Peters, on Cicero, March 2017 The Paris Agreement calls to hold the increase in the global average temperature to “well below 2°C”. What on earth does that mean? The ambition of the Paris Agreement has become well-known: Holding the increase in the global...
The Essential Message of Laudato Si’ – Cardinal Peter Turkson – Message to Bishops Worldwide, from Portugal in February 2016 Jan 25, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesThe Essential Message of Laudato Si’ shared by Cardinal Turkson: Message to Bishops Worldwide, from Portugal in February 2016. Feel free to print and use the google doc (2 pages double-sided) at your parish: Everyone must act responsibly to save our world! All human...
Summary highlights from 1491 and 1493, by Charles Mann Jan 25, 2017 | Blog, Member OrganizationHuman populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously...
Insight and encouragement from St. Catherine of Siena Jan 22, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesCatherine of Siena by Sigrid Undset (2009), references are to the kindle version. “Daughter, do you know who you are and who I am? If you know these two things you will be very happy. You must know that you are that which is not, but I am That Which Is. If your soul...
Summary highlights from No Shortcuts: Organizing in the New Gilded Age Jan 20, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesNo Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey (this is a book for workers but there is a lot we can draw from it) My interest, borne out by the empirical cases that follow, is in understanding the power structures of ordinary people and...
Summary highlights from The Great Work: Our Way into the Future by Thomas Berry Jan 19, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesFr. Thomas Berry educated and inspired many. His last book, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future, was certainly read by many of those who worked on Laudato Si'. It remains a source of guidance and consideration. What follows are excerpts from this classic that...
Lazarus, Come Forth: How Jesus Confronts the Culture of Death and Invites Us into the New Life of Peace Jan 18, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesTwo years ago, the Global Catholic Climate Movement came together around the 1.5 C petition and in anticipation of the pope's encyclical. Taken together with his previous Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, and other papal documents and bishops' conference...
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Berlin Family Lectures) by Amitav Ghosh Jan 3, 2017 | Blog, News and UpdatesWhy does literature not deal with climate change or global change, except rarely or in the outposts of climate/science fiction, set in the future? What does Laudato Si' tell us about a way forward? Excerpts from The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the...
