• Ghana's first Catholic Cardinal,
    Peter Appiah Turkson
    On March 30, 2012, Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, presented Vocation of the Business Leader: A Reflection, at the XXIV UNIAPAC World Congress in Lyon, France. 
     
    Speaking to 2000 Christian businesspeople, Cardinal Turkson noted the common malady that afflicts many, particularly businesspeople: a tendency to separate one's faith from one's work. This leads to the modern affliction of a divided life. Citing the desire of the Church to help businesspeople live out their professional lives fruitfully for the common good, the Cardinal evoked the Church's social doctrine, with its desire to implement its principles in the concrete.
     
    The 30-page reflection had its beginning at an international seminar of business leaders and scholars in Rome, 24-26 February 2011, entitled, "Caritas in Veritate: The Logic of Gift and the Meaning of Business". In the light of the lively exchanges, participants resolved to write a handbook or guide for business men and women and business educators, to address the important role of vocation for the business leader in today's global economy and the contribution of the Church's social principles for the modern corporation.   Vocation of the Business Person...read more...
  • Rev Luis Cortés_President of Esperanza
    As the Supreme Court prepares to take up legal challenges to Arizona’s controversial immigration law (SB-1070), more than 50 prominent Catholic, Protestant and Jewish groups [including CMSM and LCWR] signed on to an amicus curiae brief arguing for suspension of the law.
     
    “People of faith are compelled to oppose unjust laws that fail to uphold the dignity of every human being,” said Lisa Sharon Harper, Director of Mobilizing at Sojourners. “All people are created in the image of God, and the Arizona law is an assault on that moral reality.”
     
    According to the brief, SB-1070 “endangers a large swath of Arizonans” by requiring law enforcement officials to demand that residents provide proof of citizenship. As the brief points out, the law deputizes local police officers as immigration agents, creating a host of legal problems and humanitarian issues.    Overturning Anti-Immigrant Law....read more.....
  • A revered Native American proverb tells us: “Never criticize someone until you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins.”
     
    About fifteen years ago, I was ministering in St. Ann’s Church, a very large Catholic parish in Marietta, GA. As part of our ecumenical outreach ministry, I was asked by some parishioners to organize a visit to the Jewish Synagogue just two miles from our parish. When I called their office, the office manager told me that the Rabbi would certainly be delighted to welcome us and we set a date.
     
    When I arrived with our thirty-five parishioners, we were met by this young Rabbi who gave us the grand tour which concluded in his worship area. We had a brief service during which he explained their weekly worship service and then he read from the Torah. His sharing was particularly interesting since he began by telling us that his best friend who lived next door to him, Tommy, was now a Benedictine monk at St. Meinrad’s Abbey.    First, Walk A Mile in His Shoes....read more....
  • Vocation of the Business Person
  • Overturning Anti-Immigrant Law
  • First, Walk A Mile in His Shoes