“Besides spreading the message of the Encyclical, it is now more important than ever to return to the heart. In Scripture, the heart is not only the center of feelings and emotions, but the locus of freedom. (…) The heart is the place where external reality has the greatest impact, where the deepest searching takes place, where the most authentic desires are discovered, where one’s ultimate identity is found, and where decisions are formed. It is only by returning to the heart that a true ecological conversion can take place”...
Read More
On this Jubilee Year dedicated to Pilgrims of Hope, JRS invites you to welcome refugees and migrants and the gifts they bring us.
Read More
In the summer of 2025, the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’, the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus (UEA Province) flipped the switch on two solar energy projects that will provide clean energy to Colombiere Jesuit Community in Baltimore, MD, and Loyola on the Potomac Jesuit Retreat House in Faulkner, MD...
Read More
The World Day of Migrants and Refugees invites us to recognise the contribution that they make to our nation. It also encourages us to welcome them. In times of economic hardship, hospitality to people coming from other nations is especially important and challenging. Many people are forced from their own homes by poverty and conflict and seek a new life elsewhere. At the same time, people in more wealthy nations fear for jobs and homes.
Read More
The dominant view in political theories, known as realism, and the resulting global order are based on the assumption that people are naturally greedy, selfish, and prone to violence for survival, as Thomas Hobbes and others have suggested.
Read More- 1
- 2