Buoys that threaten to drown migrants and other inhumane border policies should horrify Catholics and prompt them to act against such nativist violence, say the NCR editors.
The Vatican's working document for the synod on synodality shows positive signs that the three-year synodal process may be the beginning of a significant shift in the church. We can't help but be encouraged.
We say: Catholics are called to care about God's creation — human and non — even when New York's skyline does not look like a caution sign warning of suffocation risks.
As NCR reported in a recent investigation, many parishioners in the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee, are feeling demoralized and unsure what power they have to effect change. They certainly deserve some answers.
With last month's announcement of a slew of plans for faith organizations' divestment from fossil fuels, the contrast that zero U.S. dioceses have divested is stark. We say: All U.S. dioceses should divest.
We say: The United States needs to return to a politics of hope, rather than fear-mongering, so the country can enact humane and just policies for migrants and asylum-seekers.
