No One Should Mourn Alone: Why Solidarity Is the Heart of the Beatitudes A reflection on standing together in a fractured world: Thinking of the Lazarus Story and the Beatitudes. SEE The world as it is We live in a time of deep fractures — political, cultural, and even spiritual. Loneliness has become an epidemic.... Continue Reading →
Walking in Circles for Truth: 24 March Through Catholic Social Teaching
Walking in Circles for Truth 24 March and the Argentine Dirty War Through Catholic Social Teaching See–Judge–Act Method ✦ ✦ ✦✦ ✦ ✦✦ ✦ ✦✦ ✦ ✦ As a Historian, We See ~ Discern, and We ACT! Argentina’s National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice (Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia), observed each 24th of... Continue Reading →
Do We Understand the Volatility of Petroleum Tank Farms? By Julie Peller, Ph.D.
Green Junction When you drive the major highways in northwest Indiana, you observe the large petroleum tank farms where oil is stored. Nearby, Tanco Terminals is expanding its tank farm, which stores petroleum and food-grade oils, at the Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor. People live near these tank farms and deal with the fumes and leaks... Continue Reading →
Kitchen Tables and Cathedrals: How Ordinary Families Could Shape the Church’s Future at the 2026 Bishops’ Summit
There's a quiet revolution happening in the Catholic Church, and it's being planned around kitchen tables. In March 2026, just the other day, Pope Leo XIV announced something unexpected: he's calling the presidents of every bishops' conference in the world to Rome this October for a summit dedicated entirely to families. Not clergy formation. Not... Continue Reading →
Digital Dignity: Why Thomas Merton and Pope Leo XIV Matter for AI Ethics Today~A Reflection in the See-Judge-Act Tradition
Introduction: A Method for a Moment The See-Judge-Act method was created by Cardinal Joseph Cardijn and draws on Thomas Aquinas’s description of the intellectual virtue of prudence. Cardijn originally designed it for young industrial workers: to help them see the problem of their temporal and eternal destiny, judge the present situation and its contradictions, and... Continue Reading →
When the Cross Becomes a Flag: Thomas Merton, Christian Nationalism, and the Media Machine Fueling It
Observe-Discern-Act "You can now find the most ardent Christians lined up in the most ridiculous, regressive, irrational parades. If they were concerned only with flying saucers and conversations with the departed, it would not be so bad, but they are also deeply involved in racism, in quasi-Fascist nationalism, in every shade of fanatical hate cult,... Continue Reading →
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