How the Amazon Synod Turns Poverty Into a Utopian Ideal

How the Amazon Synod Turns Poverty Into a Utopian Ideal

Catholic doctrine teaches that both poverty and wealth are means that can serve to reach our main goal, which is eternal salvation. For this reason, the Church does not condemn being rich or poor. Instead, she criticizes people’s attachment to riches or their contempt for poverty, since these attitudes are at odds … Read more

Exposing the Eco-Myths at the Rio Summit

Exposing the Eco-Myths at the Rio Summit 3

""""[vc_column_text]Twenty years after the original Earth Summit (Eco 92), a diminished number of world leaders reconvened again in Rio de Janeiro, from June 20-22 for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The earlier event promoted a radical ecological agenda based on many myths about the environment. At this year’s summit, … Read more