The current pandemic has caused people to live in new ways. The celebration of Easter offers Christians new, living hope: not only to live through the pandemic but to live each present moment with divine vitality that invigorates everyone’s limited humanity.
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Ironically physical distance has increased awareness of, even longing for, humans’ connection with one another and all creation. The social teaching of the Church names this virtuous longing solidarity. “Solidarity is one of [its] basic principles.” It includes “responsibility toward” all as well as friendship and social charity.” Solidarity names deep moral commitments. It was and is alive in the life and ministry of Risen Christ Jesus.
In 1983 Cardinal Joseph Bernardin proposed the consistent ethic of life to help navigate moral commitments in the modern age. Theology professor Steven P. Millies reminds what that ethic is not before reminding that the current successor to Cardinal Bernardin, Cardinal Blase Cupich has...reformulat[ed] it slightly as a consistent ethic of solidarity.
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