UPDATED (9:15pm, Pacific; July 22): Sen. Kaine has been chosen to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate. In the meantime, CWR’s managing editor, Catherine Harmon, reminded me of this interesting story from last year: U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, […]
While males have long demonstrated much higher suicide rates than females, longitudinal research released last week by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported a narrowing of that gap. Although the suicide rate across nearly […]
One week ago, the morning after the Vatican’s one-day conference Centesimus Annus 25 Years Later, Pope Francis and U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders happened to meet in the lobby of the Vatican hotel, Casa Santa […]
The third volume of Father Robert J. Spitzer’s Happiness, Suffering, and Transcendence series, God So Loved the World: Clues to Our Transcendent Destiny from the Revelation of Jesus, continues the exploration of man’s relationship with […]
Saint Francis of Assisi is well known as the patron saint of ecology, a position recently highlighted by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si. According to the Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order, members of the […]
“That is a good book,” wrote Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), the father of novelist Louisa May Alcott, “which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.” It’s also true, as the author of Ecclesiastes […]
A month has already gone by since Pope Francis set foot on Kenya soil, on his first apostolic visit to the African continent, a visit which also took him to Uganda and the Central African […]
In a Q&A with journalists on his way from Africa back to Rome, Pope Francis answered questions posed by journalists from across the world. He touched on inter-religious relations, the role of the media, and […]
“Be artisans of the human and spiritual renewal of your country. I underline, artisans of the human and spiritual renewal.” With these words to the Christians of Central Africa, Pope Francis ended his historic first […]
When Pope Francis met the Kenyan bishops during their ad limina visit at the Vatican in April 2015, one of them, Bishop Anthony Muheria of the Diocese of Kitui, joked in Italian, “Thank you, Your […]
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