Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican leaders release historic message on climate (CNA) Pope Francis, Archbishop Justin Welby, and Patriarch Bartholomew I released an unprecedented joint message on Tuesday, calling the climate crisis a “devastating injustice.” The three Christian leaders said that there would be “catastrophic consequences” for future generations unless the world took responsibility for environmental damage…

Bishop ordained for Wuhan, China (CNS) A new bishop has been installed in China’s Wuhan Diocese, making him the latest to be ordained under a deal between the Vatican and the communist state. Franciscan Father Francis Cui Qingqi was ordained bishop of Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Sept. 8, with the approval of both the state and the church, reported ucanews.com…

Catholic Charities prepares to welcome hundreds of Afghan refugees to Tulsa (NewsOn6) Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma is getting ready for the arrival of 800 Afghan refugees in Tulsa. The non-profit will help roughly 200 families with things like housing, healthcare, and getting kids enrolled in school. They say this is the most refugees they ever helped in one year…

When is a “Catholic priest” not a “Catholic priest”? (RNS) Religion-beat professionals are aware that not all people — men and women — who say they are Catholic priests are actually Roman Catholic priests. As Mollie “GetReligionista emerita” Hemingway said more than a decade ago, just because someone says that he or she plays shortstop for the New York Yankees doesn’t mean that this claim is true. Someone in the House of Steinbrenner gets to make that call. I say this because of the small, but educational, waves of social-media chatter the other day about the testimony of Father Gabriel Lavery at an Ohio legislature hearing linked to a bill that would prohibit vaccine mandates…

We should all be more like Dorothy Day (The New York Times) People want to know how to solve huge social problems. They want clear answers that fit neatly within our prefabricated ideological contexts. But Dorothy Day was bearing witness to a different kingdom, a different way of being in the world. The reason why I’m drawn to Day’s work is that she explodes modern political boxes and assumptions. But Day was not a “moderate.” Instead, she was radical in ways that did not fit within the ideological battle lines of her own time or in ours…

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