via the NY Times: The world has gained a new weapon in the war on malaria, among the oldest known and deadliest of infectious diseases: the first vaccine shown to help prevent the disease. By one estimate, it will save tens of thousands of children each year. Malaria kills about half a million people each… Read More First Malaria Vaccine Approved by WHO
Pope Francis, via the Vatican: Without freedom, there can be no true humanity, for human beings were created free in order to be free. The tragic chapters of your country’s history provide a great lesson: whenever freedom was attacked, violated and suppressed, humanity was disfigured and the tempests of violence, coercion and the elimination of… Read More Freedom Demands Personal Responsibility
In Slovakia, Pope Francis recently said: In the Church, no one ought ever to feel out of place or set aside. This is not just a truism; it is the reality of the Church, in which we live as a people called by God, each with his or her special role to play, all as… Read More Pope Francis: We Are Called to Live As One Universal Family
In Slovakia, Pope Francis recently said: The bread spoken of in the Gospel is always bread that is broken. This sends a powerful message for our life as a community: it reminds us that true wealth does not consist simply in multiplying the things we have, but in sharing them fairly with those around us.… Read More Young People Need the Flavor of Solidarity, Not Bland Consumerism
via the Vatican: In the face of cultural, ethnic, political and religious diversity, we can either retreat into a rigid defense of our supposed identity, or become open to encountering others and cultivating together the dream of a fraternal society…. If we put the Gospel at the centre and bear witness to it with fraternal… Read More Pope Francis: Remember God’s Style of Closeness, Compassion, and Tender Love
Tish Harrison Warren writes: “My body, my choice,” the rallying cry of the pro-choice movement, has been adopted by those opposing mask and vaccine mandates… In Vogue, Molly Jong-Fast said that the phrase, when used by conservatives who oppose vaccine mandates, shows that “for Republicans, it’s a case of government regulation for thee but not… Read More A Christian Understanding of Freedom
via the Vatican: Let us never forget this: faith cannot be reduced to a sweetener to make life more palatable. Jesus is a sign of contradiction. He came to bring light to the darkness, exposing the darkness for what it is and forcing it to submit to him. For this reason, the darkness always fights… Read More Pope Francis Encourages Christians to Offer Prophetic Witness to the Beauty of the Gospel
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