To follow Jesus, we must change our lives profoundly Jan 27, 2018 | BlogMark tells us, “Change your lives.” How do I change my life? What are the values that I need to begin to live? Homily given at St. Clare of Montefalco Parish, Detroit. The transcripts of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton’s homilies are posted weekly to the...
Putting The Sister In Solar: The Movement Bringing Women Out Of Energy Poverty Jan 27, 2018 | Blog27 Jan 2018 cross-posted from The Beam. If anyone knows stories of how churches are involved, please let us know! “If energy poverty were a person, it would be a woman,” says Olasimbo Sojinrin, Country Manager of Solar Sister Nigeria. And in rural Tanzania, just 7%...
“The indigenous peoples of the Amazon want to tell all of humanity that we are worried because due to the consequences of climate change” Jan 24, 2018 | BlogPope Francis heard testimony from three members of different Amazon tribes. Héctor Sueyo and Yésica Patiachi of the Harakbut people spoke passionately about the pressure their peoples are under. “We ask that you defend us!” Patiachi told Francis, to...
Pope: ‘Being and working together’ is not merely a slogan but a programme for the present and the future Jan 23, 2018 | BlogPope’s Message to Executive Chairman of “World Economic Forum” on Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World: Focus on the common good ‘We cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of millions of people whose dignity is wounded’ Below is the...
Hear global voices PN Jan 22, 2018 | BlogBy David O’Brien, excerpt cross-posted from NCRonline by Herbert McCabe: “If you don’t love, you’re dead. And if you do, they’ll kill you.” So, love is the big idea here, and Jesus’ loving gifts of death and resurrection only make sense because of that first,...
