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Hope is not selfish, it seeks the good of the whole community

September 4, 2017

To see what this hope looks like, examine the beatitudes of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. They depict the exemplary form of the hopeful life: One in which we pursue the future kingdom in a life of justice and mercy. Though the hopeful should avoid secular “worldliness,” they should be invested in society.

Turkson: Pro-life cause and concern for environment are ‘inseparable’

Interviews

September 1, 2017

As Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew release a joint statement on the care of creation, Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, the pope’s right-hand man on environmental issues, insists that fighting abortion and fighting climate change are two sides of the same coin – they’re both, he says, about defending and promoting the dignity of human life.

Houston’s kayaking priest wanted to get across, ‘God is still with us!’
- Interviews
- August 31, 2017
After he ended up stranded and sleeping in his pickup Saturday night while trying to reach his Houston home, Father David Bergeron got up Sunday morning eager to say Mass. There was no congregation on his overpass, so the enterprising young priest broke out his kayak. He went up and down streets to check on people – trying, he said, to reassure them ‘God is still with us.’
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Houston cardinal on prayer amid Harvey: ‘We have to wake up Jesus in the boat!’
- Interviews
- August 29, 2017
Considering the “cosmic” damage caused by Hurricane Harvey so far, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston said Monday, “The people of Houston, I have to say, are rather resilient, but this is really stretching them.” Calling for prayer on behalf of the affected region across the country and around the world, DiNardo said, “I think we have to wake up Jesus in the boat!”
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‘Blood and Faith’: A new book links white nationalists to Christianity
- Church in the US, Interviews, Religion News Service
- August 24, 2017
In his new book, “Blood & Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism,” Damon T. Berry traces how white nationalists — who believe whites are superior to other races and promote a whites-only vision of America — have cherry-picked Scripture to craft their exclusive ideology.
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