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Tag: Pope Francis

I spoke to the value of Hospitality

I spoke to the value of Hospitality

Posted on March 10, 2016March 9, 2016 by Ellie Anders
Interfaith Cooperation is about values, shared values. Religions have fundamentally different truth claims, but they hold in common certain values.  I recently participated in an event for our local ... Read More
Tearing Down Christmas Lights: The Reason for the Season

Tearing Down Christmas Lights: The Reason for the Season

Posted on December 3, 2015December 2, 2015 by Kathryn Ray
Last Wednesday, protesters in downtown Chicago started pulling lights off the city’s newly-lit Christmas tree. Marching to decry the death of Laquan McDonald at the hands of the police, they broke t... Read More
Call to Action for a New and Just World Order By Junaid S. Ahmad and Abdul Jabbar

Call to Action for a New and Just World Order By Junaid S. Ahmad and Abdul Jabbar

Posted on August 6, 2015August 6, 2015 by Guest Post
Over the past few decades, “politics” became a dirty word globally, to be left for the corrupt and deceitful. A healthy tradition of interventions by various social and political actors to remedy ... Read More
“50 Years Since Nostra Aetate" with The International Council of Christians and Jews

“50 Years Since Nostra Aetate” with The International Council of Christians and Jews

Posted on July 24, 2015July 24, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
“Jews are non-Christian in a way that other religions are not.” Meredeth Banki, speaker at the International Council of Christians and Jews, said this when speaking about her experience as part of... Read More
On Taking a Selfie with Pope Francis

On Taking a Selfie with Pope Francis

Posted on July 13, 2015July 13, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
Recently I attended an audience with Pope Francis with the International Council of Christians and Jews. It was my second audience, as I had also gained access to the Vatican’s elaborate reception r... Read More
Laudato Si' - Becoming Painfully Aware

Laudato Si’ – Becoming Painfully Aware

Posted on June 23, 2015June 22, 2015 by Chris Crews
This is the first in a multi-part series exploring the Laudato Si’ Encyclical Letter on the environment by Pope Francis. “Our goal is not to amass information or to satisfy curiosity, but rath... Read More
An Audience with Pope Francis—Dispatch from Rome

An Audience with Pope Francis—Dispatch from Rome

Posted on February 3, 2015February 2, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay
We were on our way to meet Pope Francis. We—the participants in the 50th anniversary meeting of the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies—departed together from the Urbaniana campus a... Read More
Taking Time: Health and Ministry

Taking Time: Health and Ministry

Posted on March 28, 2013March 28, 2013 by Christina Yost
It is about that time in the academic calendar at my seminary where we are halfway through the semester and the influx of homework that always seem to accumulate around this time of the year. For many... Read More
To Be Understood As To Understand

To Be Understood As To Understand

Posted on March 19, 2013March 19, 2013 by Nicole Edine
O Master grant that I may never seek So much to be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love with all my soul. – Prayer of St Francis, Catholic Hymn As so... Read More
Caritas de libertati: A People of Hope

Caritas de libertati: A People of Hope

Posted on March 15, 2013April 2, 2014 by Ted Dedon
Surely you’ve heard the Good News: We Have a Pope. What do you make of it all? So far I’ve heard many different opinions on the matter. Some are excited, but I would say a large majority o... Read More

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