via the NY Times: Alcohol is a leading preventable cause of cancer, and alcoholic beverages should carry a warning label as packs of cigarettes do, the U.S. surgeon general said on Friday…. But alcohol directly contributes to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 related deaths each year, the surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, said. He called… Read More Surgeon General: Add Cancer Warnings on Alcohol
via the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life: As an eventful 2024 comes to an end and we approach a new year, a new presidential administration, and a new Congress, how can American Catholics and people of good will bring principles of Catholic social thought—human life and dignity, family and community, solidarity and… Read More Catholic Responsibilities and Opportunities After the Election and Synod
Michael Sean Winters writes: Can the Democrats perform a proper autopsy?: We should be suspicious of monocausal explanations for the defeat, but the largest reason seems to be that the Trump campaign successfully placed their candidate on the winning side of the “diploma divide.” As David Brooks noted at The New York Times about the… Read More What Went Wrong for the Democrats in 2024?
At the NY Times, Pope Francis writes: Narcissists are continually looking into the mirror, painting themselves, gazing at themselves, but the best advice in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us. It will prove the truth of the proverb that there are only two kinds of perfect people:… Read More Pope Francis: There Is Faith in Humor
via the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose: On November 14th 2024, Prof Mazzucato convened a historic dialogue at the Vatican, featuring Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley and Pope Francis, to make the case for a fundamental reimagining of economics to serve the common good. This conception of economics is underpinned by the… Read More Economics of the Common Good
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Life expectancy gap in U.S. widens to 20 years due to “truly alarming” health disparities, researchers say healthwatch by Sara Moniuszko: “In 2000, life expectancy ranged from an average of 70.5 years for Americans at the lowest end to 83.1 years for those in the highest… Read More Around the Web
The great privilege and responsibility we have as teachers is getting to love our students—to always will the good of our students and to always value them, especially who they are at the core of their being. We do this first face-to-face on a regular, perhaps daily, basis. We are there in moments of joy,… Read More How Catholic Schools Can Fulfill Their Mission
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