Check out these recent articles from around the web: Africa needs St. John Paul II now more than ever by Bishop Matthew Kukah: “Dictatorship has deepened the culture of human rights violations while breeding resentment and frustration among our people. Resource-endowed countries have not been able to use their huge wealth into improve the quality… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Time for the Pro-Life Movement to Be Very Smart by Michael Sean Winters: “If abortion really is the great evil of our time…shouldn’t we expect pro-life leaders to insist that those candidates they support be willing to spend money to confront poverty, which is the leading… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Shame Culture by David Brooks: “Everybody is perpetually insecure in a moral system based on inclusion and exclusion. There are no permanent standards, just the shifting judgment of the crowd. It is a culture of oversensitivity, overreaction and frequent moral panics, during which everybody feels… Read More Around the Web

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