"Dear Pope Francis.…” Thus began many of the letters that were carefully placed in a blue binder in preparation for transcontinental travel to Rome. Others opened with the salutation: “Your Holiness,” “Most Holy Reverend Pope Francis,” “Querido Papa Fr

ldquo I know their suffering rdquo the Lord said to Moses in witness to the enslavement of the people of Israel ldquo and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land a land flowing with milk and honey rdquo Ex 3 7-8 Six

At Jefferson's farm at Monticello, the weather is growing extreme and erratic.

ldquo I have seen the earth rdquo lamented the prophet Jeremiah ldquo and here in this place is wildness and waste and I look to the heavens mdash and their light is gone I have seen the mountains and here they are wavering and all the hills palpitate I have seen and here there is no hum

James Martin S J recently made the case on this blog that he should have been invited to speak at the Republican and Democratic conventions Among other things he explained in Why I Should Speak at the Conventions it would secure the party that invited him the Jesuit vote not to mention that

Mid-August on a university campus is a time of greeting among people who are returning after months away ldquo How was your summer rdquo I ask a student who works at the circulation desk in the library ldquo Hot rdquo he says The hottest in U S history as a matter of fact Temperatures in

Peace to you and welcome to my first post for In All Things where I will be writing about ecological concerns My name is Elizabeth Groppe and I am a teacher of theology at Xavier University a Jesuit school nestled in the rolling hills of the Ohio River Valley I am also the mother of an exuber

What the church can do about global warming

We are here in Panama,” stated Naderev Sano, “to tell the world that climate change is a matter of life and death for the Philippines.” Sano is commissioner of the Filipino Climate Change Comission, and he spoke these words at a meeting held in preparation for the UN meeting on cli