Check out these recent articles from around the web: At 3-year mark, Francis is a both/and pope in an either/or world by John Allen: “He’s a reformer, because that was part of the electoral mandate he received from his fellow cardinals three years ago. He’s struggling to inject transparency, accountability, and professionalism into Vatican operations,… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Entertaining Ourselves to Death by Timothy O’Malley: “The Church’s schools, universities, hospitals, and parishes have a responsibility to re-build a political culture of love, of solidarity, and of hope. Yet, the first step may be turning away from the very political culture that has created the… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Can the greatest religious painter of the 20th century make a comeback? by David Van Biema: “It may be that Rouault’s long decades of art world exile are over. Dempsey certainly hopes so. Offering a non-Dolorist testimony to the Miserere’s relevance that might please Pope Francis,… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: US immigration policy must combine compassion and safety by Cardinal Sean O’Malley: “Too often, our public debates about immigration focus on secondary characteristics of human identity. Religion, race, ethnicity, and nationality are important, but they are secondary to human dignity and human uniqueness. The ancient religious… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Pope shining a light on Mexico’s margins by Austen Ivereigh: “Pope Francis will be spending almost all of his time in Mexico’s margins, in four dioceses never visited by previous popes, to be with those for whom he has made clear he has come: prisoners, the… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: As Children Die Reaching for Europe’s Shores, Empathy Fades by AP: “Images of children victims encapsulated the drama. In one, a boy about Aylan’s age is lying on a rocky shore, a pacifier attached to his clothing with a plastic chain, a hat with a pompon… Read More Around the Web (Part 2)

Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Glamour of Evil by Gerald Schlabach: “If a social diatribe were a sufficient response to the glamour of evil, one could lament many more examples of our culture’s preference for appearance over substance. Increasingly, it seems that advertising has come to evoke ephemeral style over… Read More Around the Web (Part 1)