Showing posts with label ethic of care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethic of care. Show all posts
Monday, May 14, 2018

Quote for Day: Why Scott Pruitt Kept Opulent Dinner with Cimate Change Denying Cardinal Pell a Secret — "It Was a No-Brainer"

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Rachel Olding in an article entitled " Why George Pell dined with under-fire EPA's Scott Pruitt in secret ," on Cardina...
Friday, June 2, 2017

In the News: Trump Decision to Exit Paris Accord "One of the Most Ignorant and Dangerous Actions Ever Taken by Any President"

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Elizabeth Johnson says it best #ParisAgreement pic.twitter.com/9yF7HGNHYN — NETWORK (@NETWORKLobby) June 1, 2017
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Rachel Held Evans on White Evangelical Roots of Trump's Decision to Ditch Paris Climate Agreement: My Response

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I try not to blame white evangelicals for everything, but their rejection of mainstream science did the world no favors today. — Rachel H...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Katha Pollitt on Laudato Si': "If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He'd Be a Feminist"

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And more outstanding commentary today — this by Katha Pollitt at The Nation   noting that   Pope Francis's considerable blind spo...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

"Sharing Our Lives as Theology 2": Another Videotaped Conversation Between Ivone Gebara and Me, on the Papal Encylical Laudato Si'

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At Easter time this year, I shared with all of you a video that came to us as an Easter gift from two amazing readers of Bilgrimage, Rac...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Naomi Klein on a Radical Vatican Under Pope Francis?

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Some excerpts for you from Naomi Klein's recent New Yorker   essay entitled "A Radical Vatican? ": Klein notes that sh...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

On Laudato Si' and Its "Integral Ecology" and Themes of Relatioality: Helpful Commentary

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When I first responded to Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si' , I promised to provide you with some mor...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Jamie Manson on Laudato Si': "How Has the Church's Paternalistic Need for Power Over the Sexualities of Its Flock Exacerbated the Conditions of the Poor?"

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Jamie Manson notes that Laudato Si'  does not acknowledge that having access to contraception has alleviated both poverty and ec...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Rabbi Menachem Creditor on Charleston Church Hate Crime: "This Broken World Demands Upon Us All That We Cry Again to 'Mother Emanuel,' to Mother-God-Who-is-with-Us"

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Rabbi Menachem Creditor on yesterday's racist hate crime in an African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina:...

Pope Francis's Encyclical on the Environment, and the Impossibility of Discussing Violence Against the Environment Without Discussing Gender Issues

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Call me crazy, but if I were a world religious leader writing a major document about ecology today — one which stresses that it is a...
Monday, May 4, 2015

As Pope Francis's Encyclical on Environment Nears, Attempts by Big Oil to Subvert It: Recent Commentary

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As various news sources are reporting that Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment will be published next month, there's...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Quote for Day: Naomi Klein on Why We're Stuck with Climate Change — It's about the Economic Elite, Stranglehold, and the Fetish of Centrism

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Naomi Klein is incisive — and powerful — as she explains why the human community is unable to address climate crisis that is now thr...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Maureen Mullarkey Strikes Again (and a Reminder About Commonweal Catholic Centrism)

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Remember Maureen Mullarkey? Sure you do! Back in 2009, when it became public that she had contributed to the prop 8 campaign to strip...
Monday, July 28, 2014

In the News: Sixth Mass Extinction of Species Now Underway

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In her review of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction (NY: Henry Holt, 2014), Louise Rubacky notes that Kolbert's thesis...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Cooking to Save the Planet: Lentil Soup

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Lentils first came to my attention when I went to college in New Orleans and stayed to work there a number of years, returning afte...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Cooking to Save the Planet: Mushrooms and Eggs (and Sweet Potatoes and Crème Fraîche)

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Writing about food in the week after American Thanksgiving is like carrying coals to Newcastle, isn't it? Or gilding the lily. Or...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Cooking to Save the Planet: Fried Eggplant

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It's very hot this week in much of the U.S. Those of us who live in places like Arkansas know a thing or two about the heat, and ...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Pictures from Late Winter, Early Spring

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Just for the heck of it: photos from several months ago, that Steve just transferred to my computer as he transferred his far better ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The Month of May, 1898: A Passage from My Forthcoming Book About Wilson R. Bachelor's Work

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And speaking of nature (I'm echoing here the sharp aphorism of Eduardo Galleano that I just posted ): a constant theme throughou...

Quote for Today: "If Nature Were a Bank"

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Quote for today--Eduardo Galeano , Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History , trans. Mark Fried   (NY: Nation Books, 2013): ...