Meghan Clark
@drclarkm1.bsky.social
Professor of Catholic Moral Theology/Ethics, 🐈⬛🐈 NYC
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
motherjones.com
Cardinal Cupich: “For Chrysostom, the altar inside the church and the ‘altar’ of the marginalized person on the street were two aspects of the exact same reality. To bow before the consecrated Host while being indifferent to the stranger is a fundamental breakdown of eucharistic logic.”
1. Ecclesiology is an extension of Christology. 2. The social doctrine of the Catholic Church as taught by the popes is firmly rooted in Chalcedonian Christology and the Nicene profession of faith. 3. So too is the entirety of the teaching of Second Vatican Council.
Cardinal Cupich: “Relying on ‘the algorithm’ cannot become a moral alibi. Human beings remain accountable for decisions affecting people’s livelihood, freedom, health, environment or life.” www.chicagocatholic.com/cardinal-bla...
Why ‘Magnifica Humanitas’? - Cardinal Blase J. Cupich - Chicago Catholic - AoC Portal
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A display of 2,977 lights, one for each life lost during 9/11, formed the Twin Towers over New York Harbor ahead of the 25th anniversary.
He is right…That you cannot use human categories to define God is not controversial theologically. (Just read some Aquinas 🤷♀️)
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.Q: ”In 2021, you said, 'God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary.' Do you still stand by that?” Talarico: “I was being provocative…What I was trying to say is that you can't use human categories to define God. That is not controversial theologically.”
Cardinal McElroy at Labor Day Weekend Mass: “No one intrinsically owns anything, all things that come as a gift from God belong to all of us…everyone has a right to part of the world’s bounty…when we work, we are co-creators with God.”
John Durso, president of Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW, reminds New Yorkers that our city and state could not have become what it is today without the courage and sacrifice of the working men and women of the labor movement. #LaborDay2026
The International Theological Commission calls for a “responsible and fraternal response" to God's creation in a new document entitled “Caring for Our Common Home”. www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...
Care for Creation is a theological question - Vatican News
The document “Caring for Our Common Home” calls for a “responsible and fraternal response to the Triune God”. The ecological question is a theological ...
vaticannews.va
Sad to say that Catholic universities and hospitals are participants of this industry. Not great company for Catholic leadership to be keeping.
Economic Policy Institute@epi.org · last mo.There’s an entire hidden industry built to stop workers from unionizing. We uncovered it. U.S. employers spend roughly $1.7 BILLION PER YEAR on union-avoidance consultants and law firms to prevent workers from organizing and bargaining for better pay and working conditions. #econsky #laborday 1/3
One specific need for Saint Leo is someone focused on Catholic Social Teaching. The CST courses in the MA and ThD programs both need development and a great teacher. Both are fully online. If you or anyone you know might be interested, please pass this along: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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“The pope shares his dinner with his Peruvian secretary..,No cook is required for the leader of the Vatican microstate. ‘They prepare their own meals…It depends on the schedule: if there isn’t time to cook because he came home late, he might settle for a peanut butter sandwich or a bowl of cereal.’”
Children worry their families can't afford food after Trump's SNAP cuts: In Delaware, an 11-year-old wondered why her family could no longer afford Cinnamon Toast Crunch. In New Jersey, four siblings wanted their mother to buy groceries — but she had to tell them she couldn't.
‘Mom, are we OK?’ Children worry their families can’t afford food after Trump’s SNAP cuts
The Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” slashed spending on food stamps. Now, more than 1 million fewer children receive benefits.
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Pope Leo in Rimini: “The hour of responsibility has arrived. Let us unmask the unjust power relations at the root of poverty and inequalities, of war and environmental disasters. Let us disarm technological development when it becomes pervasive and destructive."
Pope to Catholic Legislators: “Sadly, we are presented with a subtle form of domination when algorithms decide who is seen, who remains invisible, when digital platforms shape public discourse without accountability, and when the dignity of workers is subordinated to the optimization of systems.”
California is FIRST IN THE NATION to offer its own partnered, affordable medication for public purchase. $19 naloxone — 50% lower than the market rate. $11 insulin pens. And now...FREE emergency-use inhalers and spacers for ALL California schools.
Exclusive: The Interior Department created a “White House priorities” list so that Trump’s pet projects could quickly be approved and funded—while maintenance needs at national parks across the country were deemed lower priorities, Michael Scherer reports:
President Trump Has a Pet-Project Docket at the National Parks
The National Park Service changed the way it prioritizes projects so that the president’s requests are quickly approved.
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Problem with this repeated frame of questioning assumes his “feelings” are appropriate on moral/legal independence of doj 🙄
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoWELKER: Can you pledge the DOJ will always act independently of the WH? BLANCHE: No, I'm not going to pledge that WELKER: So if the president asked you do to something that you feel crosses an ethical or legal line, would you do it? BLANCHE: He would never do that. He never has. He never will.
Pope Leo at Angelus: “Hoarding and waste are two sides of the same evil: greed. This spiritual sickness numbs the senses, which become intoxicated with wealth, to the point of making people forget those who weep from hunger and cry out from thirst.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
NEW: Hope Border Institute and Bishop Mark Seitz Announce Expanded Humanitarian Response for Migrants at US-Mexico Border
THE ODYSSEY: When you no longer receive strangers with respect, dignity, and hospitality, when you abandon international law, you cause the collapse of civilization. HADESTOWN: Union solidarity is the only way out of hell and the climate crisis. Please, please someone make an Antigone movie.
This is what fighting fascism looks like.
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...
Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.
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If using the dead's own words and actions to describe them is speaking ill of the dead, then the real question is why didn't you do more to oppose their harms when they were alive? Or are you using death to hide your comfort with those harms?
DC’s Cardinal McElroy at Mass today celebrating Nation’s 250th: “Any genuine patriotism, especially one rooted in the Catholic faith, must resist the social tides that estrange us from one another, and turn our society inward, transforming it into a warped patriotism that is exclusive and purist.”
