Samantha Power, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, writes: The Syrian people have endured 14 years of brutal civil war and 24 years under the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, who stayed in power by torturing and killing – including with chemical weapons – any of his people who dared to oppose him.… Read More The End of the Butcher Bashar al-Assad’s Murderous Regime
David Brooks writes: In trying to construct a society that maximized talent, Conant and his peers were governed by the common assumptions of the era: Intelligence, that highest human trait, can be measured by standardized tests and the ability to do well in school from ages 15 to 18. Universities should serve as society’s primary… Read More Reimagining Our Broken Meritocracy
Michael Jordan Laskey writes: My 4-year-old son—rascally, chaotic—is better behaved at church than he is anywhere else…. We have to be sitting as close to the choir as humanly possible. And Mr. John, the bald, bespectacled Boomer who plays the drum set at this Mass, can’t be out sick or on vacation. If all these… Read More How I Learned the True Meaning of ‘Good’ Liturgical Music
via the Berkley Center: October 21-22, 2024 | This conference will commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), with a special focus on the commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Patrick F. Healy Conference on “Freedom and Man.” Held at Georgetown University on December 2, 1964, the conference on… Read More Revisiting “Freedom and Man”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk by Tom Nichols: “As a private citizen, she can apologize for Assad and Putin to her heart’s content. But as a security risk, Gabbard is a walking Christmas tree of warning lights. If she is nominated to be America’s… Read More Around the Web
via Jesuits Magazine: In 2023, and earlier this year, Fr. Patrick “Paddy” Gilger, SJ, presented a lecture on loneliness in two venues—first at St. Paul’s College in Winnipeg, Canada, and then as part of an Ignatian Volunteer Corps event at Saint Ignatius College Prep in Chicago. Through anecdotes, research findings and statistics, Fr. Gilger examines… Read More Antidotes to Loneliness
Pope Francis: “I pose a question that each of us can ask ourselves: Do I deprive myself of something to give to the poor? When I give alms, do I touch the hand of the poor and look them in the eye? Brothers and sisters, let us not forget that the poor cannot wait!”
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