Quote of the Day
Samantha Power: “Every day you fight for a cause, speak out vs. injustice, or commit even a small act of kindness, you are changing some slice of the world.”
#BringBackOurGirls: Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe on The Colbert Report
We recently highlighted Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe’s inclusion in the Time 100. Earlier this week, she went toe-to-toe with Stephen Colbert. Check out the full video below:
Scientists and the Vatican Agree: Climate Change is Real, Must be Addressed
One of the most familiar theological notions to millennial Catholics is likely that “the Church has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel” (Gaudium et Spes, 4). Although there are numerous examples of how the Church continues to do this, one… Read More Scientists and the Vatican Agree: Climate Change is Real, Must be Addressed
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Quote of the Day
Cardinal Sean O’Malley: “Our striving for the common good in society is simply a logical corollary of our love of neighbor. Unjust structures and oppressive political and economic systems result when ethics and virtue are banished from the public square as irrelevant to building a just and humane society.”
Rwanda’s Central Lesson: Never Again
It’s now been twenty years since Rwanda was engulfed in a sea of unimaginable horrors. Perhaps 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in just 100 days in 1994, as the world stood by idly. This modern genocide relied not on the latest technology, but on simple instruments of death—most often machetes and nail-studded sticks… Read More Rwanda’s Central Lesson: Never Again
In Defense of Sarah Palin
While Sarah Palin’s statement that “waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists” is nauseating, at least she is not keeping silent about this war crime. One of the greatest catastrophes of the War on Terror is how we have first permitted the Bush-Cheney administration to define torture out of legal existence so as to torture with impunity,… Read More In Defense of Sarah Palin
