Archbishop Roberto González Nieves has lent support to Queremos Sol, a coalition that advocates for renewable energy in Puerto Rico, focusing on rooftop solar. González has urged churches and schools to switch to solar.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: The rebuilding of Puerto Rico's energy grid could serve as a model; Desmond Tutu was raised up to point the way for us; The Post on clergy who quit.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Puerto Rico's people endure power outages; are constitutional reforms headed our way? Mark Silk encourages us to use the pronoun "they" for God.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Even Republican Catholics have favorable opinion of Pope Francis; a discussion about free speech, media, truth and lies; Puerto Rico's failing fossil fuel infrastructure
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sat down with a full delegation of religious leaders in a meeting that Catholic participants described as one that reflected many of the priorities of Pope Francis.
Distinctly Catholic rounds up political news and commentary: Carlson's eight-minute, untrue rant; looking at minimum wage and McDonald's; scrub away Olympics corruption with these permanent locations.
Review: The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly's Priesthood in the South Bronx explores Connolly's ministry and how he learned to be a priest of the people from the 1960s to the 1980s.
A $1.5 million grant awarded by the U.S. bishops' Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions will support Catholic Extension's ongoing disaster recovery work in Puerto Rico three years after two devastating hurricanes.
We say: In the past three and a half years, many people have been suffering in our country. We urge Catholics to look around at the suffering in the U.S. and vote your conscience this election.
