Check out these recent articles from around the web:

CRS officials’ upcoming visit to Philippines by Archbishop Joseph Kurtz: “The trip highlights the person-to-person solidarity that we feel for suffering people. We are thankful that people survived the Typhoon Haiyan’s assault, but now the survivors need clean water and other aids to maintain basic hygiene.”

War, Its Lessons, and the Search for a Permanent Peace by Samantha Power: “Stability and peace begin with our willingness to do what is necessary to deter those who would employ violence to abuse the rights of others. As the fates of Charles Taylor and Ratko Mladic now illustrate, the narratives that are most likely to help douse the embers of conflict are those that put the facts on the public record and the worst offenders behind bars.”

Redefining Success: The Beauty in Vulnerability by Claire McGrath, Catholic How: “Vanier invites us to reconsider our concept of success. Do we want a success that forces us to leave others behind in our vain pursuit of perfection, or do we want a different sort of success—one where we share in the joy of one another?”

Beyond Red and Blue by John Carr: “There are unreal, unhelpful divisions between those who focus mostly on family factors as causes and remedies for poverty and those who look to economic forces as primary contributors and solutions. These partisan and ideological walls must come down. A child’s future is shaped by both the choices of the parents and the policies of government, by both the strength of the child’s family and the strength of the economy.”

Sharing the love by Patrick Manning: “I quake at the thought of what a difference I could make in the world if I loved every person I met with a quarter of the love I give to my wife. It’s something to shoot for, but, even as I inevitably fall short of this goal, I delight in the thought of loving a new being into existence. If I make no other contribution to the world, someday I hope to present the world with a child who has been well loved and who in consequence loves others well.”

Libertarians become vocal critics of Evangelii Gaudium by Michael Sean Winters: “The pope has a large microphone. The question is the degree to which Catholic politicians of both left and right have the ears to hear what he is truly trying to say.”

Riptide by Peter Bouckaert: “Simply put, the underequipped AU troops and the 1,600 French troops are insufficient in number to halt the bloodshed. Only a U.N. peacekeeping mission with some 6,000 to 10,000 soldiers would have a chance to stop the killings and stabilize the country.”

‘Superpope’ artist acclaims Pope Francis as a true hero by Elise Harris and Estefania Aguirre: “Artist Mauro Pallotta revealed that his viral depiction of Pope Francis as a superhero was done to portray how the pontiff uses his papal authority ‘for the good.’”

The Christian case for raising the minimum wage by Elizabeth Stoker: “And at a theological level, there is an imperative to raise wages for those who don’t earn enough to provide for themselves or their families. Christian politicians like Ryan and Rubio — both confirmed Catholics who have inflected their recent anti-poverty rhetoric with the ethics and language of faith — should get on board.”

Wall Street Journal: Okay, Obama Isn’t Hitler, But He’s Pretty Hitler-y by Jonathan Chait: “Tom Perkins’s letter to The Wall Street Journal last week, in which he compared liberal attacks on the one percent to the Holocaust, was an anthropologically useful document that displayed the deranged persecution complex that afflicts large segments of America’s superrich in the Obama era.”