NBC News describes a new report from the United Nations on crimes against humanity in Syria: Thousands of civilians are being secretly imprisoned, raped, tortured and exterminated by Syria’s government as it wages a bloody civil war, a United Nations commission found Monday. The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria lifted the lid on what… Read More UN: Assad Regime Guilty of Extermination, Crimes against Humanity
Bishop Robert McElroy has a new article at America, in which he discusses faithful citizenship: In Francis’ message he made clear that the core of the vocation of public service, and of all politics, is to promote the integral development of every human person and of society as a whole. It is a vocation that… Read More The Four Preeminent Political Issues Facing the United States
In his prayer intentions for February, Pope Francis focuses on care for our common home. Check out the video:
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)
In The Poisoning of Flint: How It Happened, I outlined some key points: The poisoning of the population of Flint, Michigan did not just happen – it was caused. Democratic processes were overridden in the name of “fiscal responsibility.” Those in positions of power (General Motors and State officials) were provided with safe, clean water… Read More Catholic Social Teaching and the Poisoning of Flint
Bishop Robert McElroy: “If I understand Pope Francis correctly, it is that the issue of poverty, particularly global poverty, with all of its victimization of men and women across the world and children, the global poverty and degradation of the earth, which threaten the whole of our humanity, that these two issues lie at the… Read More Quote of the Day
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