VIVAT USA

09/25/2026

At the UN Human Rights Council, VIVAT International spoke about the killing of members of Paraguay’s Y’apo Indigenous community, including two Indigenous leaders.
VIVAT and its partner CONAPI called for a thorough, independent investigation and accountability.
They urged Paraguay to protect the community and ensure access to its ancestral lands.

09/02/2026

We’re asking you to sign our petition calling on the United Nations to establish a binding international ban on weapons that can independently select and kill human targets.

This technology is advancing incredibly fast. The rules meant to govern it are not. That should scare all of us.

We have a chance to draw a line now: No machine should ever have the authority to decide on its own to take a human life.

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/931/918/687/?TAP=2447&source_id=AIDrone&answer%5Bfirstname%5D=Louise&answer%5Blastname%5D=Nolta&answer%5Bemail%5D=jpicssps%40yahoo.com&answer%5Bzipcode%5D=60093&answer%5Bphone%5D=&t=OyRWYJGq9Xrm

09/01/2026

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-08/pope-leo-digital-communication-must-serve-truth-and-human-digni.html

Pope Leo XIV urges Catholic communicators gathered at the SIGNIS World Conference in Kigali to promote digital communication rooted in truth, human ...

09/01/2026

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2026-09/season-creation-world-day-prayer-environment-church-ecumenical.html

Christians around the world mark the 11th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, launching a month-long ecumenical season of prayer and action ...

07/29/2026

Summer months always brings visitors. The JPIC office was recently visited by
Fr. Roy Thomas who is the new Executive Director of VIVAT Intl. Accompanying him on his visit is Fr. Alexander Rödlach SVD PhD. He is the new SVD JPIC coodinator for the Chicago province.
Fr. Roy will reside in NY and Fr. Alex will reside in East Troy, WI

05/12/2026

Here's a 2-minute video from the Jesuit Migration Network, which invites Catholics across the country to join Corpus Christi processions as a public witness to our communion with Christ and solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. See less

04/05/2026

Lent is complete. The fast is broken forever by resurrection. The Gardener appears, mistaking Mary in the garden. "Tell my brothers: I am ascending to my Father and your Father" (John 20:17). The new creation has begun. Our 40 days of penitence now become 50 days of Easter joy, commissioning us to proclaim: The Earth is risen! Alleluia!

04/04/2026

The Great Silence. The earth quaked when Christ died (Matt 27:51); it holds its breath as he descends to the dead. Holy Saturday is the Day of the earth's vigil. "The creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God" (Rom 8:19). We have fasted for 40 days. We have wept for the earth. Now we wait. The seed is in the ground. The tomb is dark. But the Spirit hovers over the waters. Tomorrow, the Gardener returns. "Mary," he will say, and in that recognition, the new creation begins. We have carried the cross of ecological sin; we will rise with ecological grace. The fast ends, but the feast of care begins.

04/03/2026

Today we venerate the Cross, but the Cross is not abstract. Its wood came from a tree that once breathed, sheltered birds, drank rain. "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (John 3:16). The world—the cosmos—was worth saving. The Cross is God's yes to creation, even in its fallenness. As we kiss the Cross, we kiss the tree, the earth, the cosmos that Christ died to redeem.

04/02/2026

On this night, Jesus institutes the sacrament that makes present his sacrifice. "The Eucharist unites heaven and earth; it embraces all of creation" (LS, 236). The bread and w**e are not symbols but real—real wheat, real grapes, real labor, real soil. To receive them while poisoning the earth is a contradiction. Tonight, as we wash feet, we commit to washing creation's wounds.