via The Atlantic: During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russian hackers attacked the U.S. on two fronts: the psychological and the technical. Hackers used classic propaganda techniques to influence American voters, bought thousands of social media ads to propagate fake news, and broke into Democratic party email servers to steal information. And it won’t be the… Read More How Russia Hacked America—And Why It Will Happen Again
Millennial writer Allison Walter writes: Faced with the prospect that we might imminently see on the national scale the fiscal devastation we saw in Kansas, it seems useful to recap a couple lessons learned from the colossal Kansas tax disaster that began five years ago: Brownback and the Kansas Republican-majority legislature decided to put into… Read More Republicans Are Copying Sam Brownback’s Disastrous Tax Experiment
Sister Helen Prejean: “It took me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people’s lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.”
via United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is starving, torturing, and killing its people. The Syrian government has “disappeared” more than 100,000 civilians into a secret network of prisons. One of the disappeared was Mansour Omari. Mansour and other detainees mixed rust with their own blood to create ink, and used… Read More Syria: These Names, Written in Blood, Must Not Be Forgotten
A people that does not take care of grandparents, that does not treat them well has no future! The elderly have wisdom. They are entrusted with a great responsibility: to transmit their life experience, their family history, the history of a community, of a people. Let us keep in mind our elders, so that sustained… Read More Pope Francis’ Prayer Intentions for December 2017: For the Elderly
Millennial writer Nichole Flores writes: As I was growing up in a Mexican-American family, Guadalupe was everywhere, but most notably in the face of my grandmother, María Guadalupe García Flores. A humble woman without much formal education, her faith guided her as she raised 12 children amid immense poverty in rural Nebraska. My grandmother embodied… Read More Guadalupe’s Legacy, Meaning, and Influence Today
Cardinal Seán O’Malley: “Christ is the light of the world, and our task is to bring that light to those who are suffering in darkness.”
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