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...
