A cursory reading of Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home could leave one with the impression that the preferential option for the poor, as a concept, is unimportant to the document. After all, Pope Francis only mentions it once, and it occurs all the way down in the 158th […]

It is hot. Globally, July 2019 was the hottest month in our 139 years of modern record-keeping. Among other things, we saw one of the great melting events of the Greenland ice sheets, a deadly heatwave descend upon Europe, and months of flooding across the Midwestern United States. While communities […]