From a website called NCRcafe.org, which promtes discussions of events from a Catholic perspective, though it doesn’t appear that one has to be Catholic it participate.
Many good and useful thoughts here. For instance,
His ethic casts a wary eye on the United States most of all. Its citizens number only 4 percent of the planet’s population. Yet it controls more than 60 percent of the world’s natural resources. It maintains the world’s largest arsenal, including 20,000 nuclear weapons — clearly, from the Franciscan view, to keep the world from seizing back the resources we’ve muscled from them.