Messages - Living City January 2021
'Save the Earth' and 'No inflammatory words...'
January 2021 Articles Archive
A virtual bake-along
Young adults in Texas host a fundraiser for Lebanon
Calling for an ethical approach to AI
Catholic university La Sapienza joins the Rome Call for AI Ethics
How to be “pro-life”
All monotheistic religions consider life sacred. The Quran affirms, “And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden to be killed except in the course of justice” [al-An‘âm (6): 151]. And scripture says about the Prophet Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you” (Jer 1:5). Yet how can we live and promote this faith message of the sacredness of human life amid a secular society that believes otherwise? How can we build a world where abortion becomes unnecessary?
Who asks for an abortion, and why?
In 2014 Guttmacher Institute anonymously surveyed 1,209 post-abortive women from nine clinics across the U.S., and 957 provided their main reason:
Protecting vulnerable lives
An interview with theologian Dana Dillon about a consistent life ethic
What can I do to support life?
Three people share their approach
The look in their eyes
Marching in 1960s Alabama for civil rights burned some images in my soul. But I still had to dig deeper to rip out the racism within
A dark yet luminous night
The first Focolare in Rome, “Paradise ’49”, meeting former Prime Minister De Gasperi and Pasquale Foresi
The lost and found phone
A powerful experience of collective prayer
No food fights here
The pandemic accelerates a journey towards collaboration among different social agencies in order to feed the needy
The double effect
“When someone is terminally ill and in great pain, is it morally permissible to administer medication that might, however, hasten the patient’s death?” J. N.
Warming spices
A cookie recipe for cold winter days
Is the common good — your good?
Considering whether the notion of the “common good” has run its course