Integral Ecology

A Catholic perspective on current events

The rural environment revives after the pandemic: the art of repopulation

The temples of rural Spain rang their bells a little over a year ago, together with the demonstrations against depopulation and rural abandonment. In March, the tolling was heard again. Today, the pandemic is transformed into life, and the villages are slowly reviving.

Rafael Miner

End-of-life care. Advance planning

There is a lot of life at the end of life, if patients receive adequate clinical care and treatment for the control of their symptoms. The author explains what Advance Care Planning is all about.

Omnes

Universal human rights?

Where are the supposedly universal human rights? It is clear that these rights are not equal for all. Their respect is the condition for the social and economic development of a country.

Jaime Gutiérrez Villanueva

Bishop José Mazuelos: "The reification of life only brings suffering".

José Mazuelos, Bishop of the Canary Islands and president of the Episcopal Subcommission on the Family and Defense of Life, on topics such as the care of the most vulnerable, the euthanasia law or the Living Will proposed by the EEC.

Rafael Miner

"The euthanasia law almost makes the objecting physician look like an offender."

Oncologist Manuel González Barón, palliative physician Ángel José Sastre and professor María José Valero criticized the new law regulating euthanasia at Villanueva University. Valero pointed out that the law almost makes the objector seem "an offender", as if he were "a persecuted hero" who must be "registered".

Rafael Miner

Pope invites you to participate in this month's Laudato si' Week

The call to care for Creation is constant in Pope Francis. Now he invites everyone to Laudato si' Week, which will take place from May 16 to 24, 6 years after the encyclical, with the slogan "We know that things can change".

Rafael Miner