by admin | Jul 27, 2016 | Catholic social teaching, Economic justice, Faithful citizenship
This is the first part of a three-part series on our current political and economic environment By Rev. Frederick Edlefsen PART ONE: Some political background on the current situation One thing that politicos agree on these days is that we are now in the one of the...
by admin | Jun 22, 2016 | Catholic social teaching, Economic justice, Environment, Living the faith, Norfolk, Tidewater
By Lonnie Ellis, OFS Climate change is a moral issue. One year ago, Pope Francis made this point emphatically with his encyclical Laudato Si. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has warned about climate change many times—with a major statement in 2001, and...
by admin | Jan 29, 2016 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, Economic justice, Faithful citizenship, Respect for life
Winter storm Jonas put an early end to last week’s business at the Virginia General Assembly, but delegates and senators returned to Mr. Jefferson’s capitol on Monday as the Commonwealth continued to dig out from as much as 30” of snow! Conference staff didn’t skip a...
by admin | Dec 22, 2015 | Catholic social teaching, Christmas, Church teaching, criminal justice, Death Penalty, Economic justice, Environment, From the Tiber to the James, mercy, Uncategorized
As we finish last-minute shopping and prepare to receive friends and family for the wondrous and joyful feast of Christmas, let’s pause and remember the true meaning of Christmas—the birth of Christ, our Savior, who was sent among us to walk with us as a human and...
by admin | Aug 13, 2015 | Catholic social teaching, Economic justice, Education, Environment, Faithful citizenship, Norfolk, Tidewater
In Iowa, Bishops talked about extreme weather and its relationship to Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment. In Cincinnati, the local Archbishop used the encyclical to urge Ohioans and public officials to take steps to conserve energy. In...
by admin | Jun 24, 2015 | Catholic social teaching, Economic justice, Faithful citizenship, Living the faith, Respect for life
The release of Pope Francis’s second encyclical, Laudato Si’, last week has sparked a much-needed global conversation about how human and environmental ecology are inextricably intertwined. Laudato Si’ is the first papal encyclical to acknowledge the effects of human...
