Patrick Carolan is a Catholic activist, organizer, and writer.
He currently serves as co-National Director of Catholics Vote Common Good.
He served as the Executive Director of the Franciscan Action Network for ten years; he co-founded the Global Catholic Climate Movement and Catholics Vote Common Good. His writing and activism are centered on his understanding and belief through Franciscan spirituality of the connectedness of all creation and God.
He’s also a dear friend.
Check out our conversation about faith, activism, the connectedness that drives us to care for one another, and the relational heart of all our work, whether we are people of faith or not.
Whether you are religious, spiritual, indifferent, or anti-religion, I think you’ll be encouraged by Patrick’s compassionate, clear, humane responses to the world and the issues that face us.
You can connect with Patrick here:
Vote Common Good
Franciscan Action Network
Reflection Questions:
Patrick’s faith is a central part of his activism. Whether you’re a person of faith or not, his message of finding a way to embody your beliefs is critical. Are there ways you can more concretely connect your morality with your activist work?
Patrick talks about the ways that he believes the Democratic Party has done a poor job reaching out to Catholic voters (and voters of faith in general). Do you agree? Do you think the Left needs to do more to give religious people a voice to counteract the Right’s toxic, compulsory Christianity?
If you are someone who has a hard time with religion in general, can the “common good” activism Patrick talks about be a place you can partner with spiritual people?
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