Check out these recent articles from around the web: Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says by NY Times: “American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the… Read More Around the Web
At NCR, Mike Jordan Laskey writes: Many people who have resisted restrictive measures meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus object to what they see as government overreach, causing an unjust curtailing of essential freedoms…. As a Catholic committed to the common good, these arguments drive me crazy. To me, it’s pretty straightforward: stay… Read More Freedom is Not License. Wear a Mask.
Philosopher Charles Taylor and sociologist José Casanova, a Berkley Center senior fellow, discuss the global crisis of democracy, the resurgence of exclusionary populisms and self-enclosed nationalisms, and lessons from the global pandemic:
Pope Francis: “God created us for communion, for fraternity. Now more than ever the pretense of focusing everything on ourselves, making individualism society’s guiding principle, has proven illusory. We have to be careful! When the emergency is over we can easily fall back into this illusion.”
via Vatican News: L’Osservatore Romano and Vatican News interviewed Bernice Albertine King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. regarding her dedication to equality, the culture of peace and the value of nonviolence. A passionate human rights activist like her father, and president of the King Center in Atlanta, Bernice Albertine feels there is a strong… Read More Bernice King on Pope Francis, Her Father, and Living Together As Brothers and Sisters
Pope Francis: “If we are faithful to Christ and do good works, we can spread the light of God’s hope.”
In a recent appearance on Fox News, Raymond Arroyo, EWTN’s news director and the host of The World Over, tried to justify the treatment of Native Americans during the “Trail of Tears”. Arroyo—a frequent guest of Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program—made the outlandish claim that we should not criticize the way Andrew Jackson’s administration treated… Read More Raymond Arroyo’s Defense of the Trail of Tears Ignores History
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