animal rights
William Wilberforce would be scandalized by the pro-factory farming EATS Act
By Charles C. Camosy — December 1, 2023
(RNS) — It's a diabolical end-run around laws that attempt to respect God’s created order.
In a new ‘Animal Liberation,’ Peter Singer consolidates advances in animal rights
By Charles C. Camosy — August 11, 2023
(RNS) — ‘A lot has happened in the past 33 years,’ said the ethicist about his update to his classic 1975 book.
Reasons for despair — and hope — for traditional religious views’ place on campus
By Charles C. Camosy — December 28, 2022
(RNS) — Examples of toleration by secular orthodox institutions create room for optimism.
What are pigs for?
By Charles C. Camosy — September 14, 2022
(RNS) — The answer can be found in the Bible.
God’s plan for animals is a hot topic in theology that we can all understand
By Charles C. Camosy — April 28, 2021
(RNS) — While much of theology is abstract by nature, this subject is as relatable as Happy the Elephant.
Nonhuman animals and the COVID-19 pandemic
By Charles C. Camosy — May 6, 2020
(RNS) — Things will go badly for us as long as we live in a throwaway culture that turns animals into mass-produced objects to be used as a mere means to our ends.
My friendship with Peter Singer 10 years on
By Charles C. Camosy — November 21, 2019
(RNS) — As Peter Singer's influential 2009 book 'The Life You Can Save,' is reissued in a 10th anniversary edition, our Catholic ethicist reviews his unlikely friendship with the champion of abortion rights.
Don’t write off the State Department’s new Commission on Unalienable Rights just yet
By Mark Silk — July 17, 2019
(RNS) — The commission chair's view of human rights is not as cramped as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's announcement might lead us to believe.
Mexico’s Fiesta de la Candelaria ends Christmas with a bang
By Irving Cabrera Torres — February 8, 2019
(RNS) — A traditional Candlemas celebration in the southern Mexican town of Tlacotalpan combines mischief and heartfelt adoration of the Virgin Mary.
Fish, fowl — and faith
By Richard Mouw — August 29, 2017
The farmer did not want to reduce chickens to something less than they are. But neither did he want make them into something more. They are chickens, and that is a sufficient reason to treat them with some dignity—chicken dignity.
’Tis the season for animal rights
By David Gibson — December 18, 2016
Live Nativity scenes aren't even historically accurate. We don't need to exploit our four-legged friends to keep the magic of the holiday season.
It’s time for evangelicals to speak up for animals (COMMENTARY)
By Kirsten Powers — October 1, 2015
The “Every Living Thing” initiative will begin a yearlong effort to engage Christians in dialogue around the biblical mandate to care for animals.
At PETA’s shelter, most animals are put down. PETA calls them mercy killings.
By Lauren Markoe — March 12, 2015
(RNS) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals doesn't want you to wear or eat any animal. But it euthanizes thousands of animals at its Virginia shelter -- the kindest thing it can do for them, it says.
Animal rights activists push Vatican not to release doves ‘to certain death’
By Eric J. Lyman — January 28, 2014
ROME (RNS) The Italian National Animal Protection Agency said that because the doves are bred in captivity and lack strong survival instincts, releasing them into the wild as is often done at the Vatican "is like condemning them to certain death."
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