Check out these recent articles from around the web:

If America really valued mothers, we wouldn’t treat them like this by Ezra Klein: “We make mothers choose between spending a month with their newborn child or keeping a roof over their child’s head. That’s not how it looks in countries that value the work mothers do.”

The right blasts Francis (again)! by Michael Sean Winters: “You can only run to the ‘what the pope meant to say’ dismissal a couple of times before people are no longer convinced.”

What the critics of Pope Francis miss by Michael Sean Winters: “What requires attention is the degree to which we in the affluent West, with our abundance of freedoms, repress ourselves with a materialistic culture that, among other things, suffocates the Gospel.”

Why Latinos Are Leaving the Catholic Church by Anna Sutherland: “So the Church must go back to the basics: preaching the Gospel, teaching members to pray, helping them hear and follow and love God in their daily lives. Better catechesis, more reverent liturgies, and all the rest matter, too, but apart from Jesus they will do nothing.”

It’s Not Just Pope Francis — God Wants Wealth Redistributed, Too by John Gehring: “Market fundamentalists who demonize government and defend an economic status quo that leaves billions of people around the globe trapped in poverty should be nervous. The Catholic Church is not on your side, and Pope Francis is just getting warmed up.”

Pope Francis, Missionary to the Martians by Katharine Mahon: “Exotheology, like Peter and the pagans, Paul III and the native populations, Francis and the Martians, looks at the incredible advances in astronomy and physics and at a limitless universe and pushes us to imagine beyond our own limitations of God’s majesty, influence, and creation. If pagan Greeks sought baptism from Peter, natives of Asia, Africa, and the Americas sought it from sixteenth-century missionaries, or Martians might seek it from Pope Francis, and we are not to ‘close the doors’ to the radical work of the Holy Spirit in these cases, so exotheology urges us to go ‘beyond the limits’ of our narrow understanding of a divinely created universe and to glorify our God whose reach is unimaginable.”

The World Is Full of Holocaust Deniers by Emma Green: “Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, two-thirds of the world’s population don’t know the Holocaust happened—or they deny it.”

A Crib for Her Baby by Audra Nakas: “As the wisdom of Catholic social teaching demonstrates, if we want to establish a true culture of life, our work to promote the dignity of human life must include every aspect of social justice, especially concern for the poor.”

We Will Not Allow These Crimes to Be Swept Under the Rug Any Longer by Kirsten Gillibrand: “We should never accept the fact that women are at a greater risk of sexual assault as soon as they step onto a college campus. But today they are. And it has to end.”