Green Junction Quality of life and modernization depend on adequate water sources. In Corpus Christi, Texas, the city’s half-million residents and industries are facing a looming water supply depletion. Industrial users, mostly in the energy/petrochemical industries, that rely on water for cooling systems and steam generation, consume as much as 70 to 80 percent of... Continue Reading →

I have been thinking more about Merton lately. My own experiences, and trying to see how it all fits. We tend to forget how open and searching Thomas Merton was at the beginning of his Catholic life. He didn’t arrive with everything neatly decided. In fact, he was first drawn to the Franciscans—so much so... Continue Reading →

What a Trappist Monk and Three Fourth-Century Theologians Want to Tell You About Prayer, Justice, and the Shining Sun Use the See-Judge-Act method to dig deeper into our tradition to see what Joseph Cardijn understood. In 1958, Thomas Merton stepped into a shopping district in Louisville. Something extraordinary happens. “I was suddenly overwhelmed with the... Continue Reading →

Historians call moments like ours a phase change—a term from physics that describes when water doesn't just get hotter but becomes something else entirely: steam, ice, a new state. We are living through a societal phase change right now—a fundamental reshaping of how we work, relate, make decisions, raise children, find community, and understand ourselves. This shift is driven... Continue Reading →

Green Junction Earth Day celebrations began in 1970 on April 22nd in the United States. At that time, the country had few regulatory protections addressing polluting industries, sewage emissions, toxic dumps, chemical pollutants, wildlife/species loss, and much more. The first decade of work by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), established in 1970, was marked by... Continue Reading →

How one big idea is changing the way Catholics think about money, markets, and everyday life Let's be honest. When most of us hear the word "economics," our eyes glaze over. Graphs, interest rates, GDP — it can feel like a conversation happening somewhere far above our heads, in boardrooms and government offices that have... Continue Reading →