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Pope Francis Begins to Address the Sexual Abuse Crisis
On Thursday, for the first time since his election, Pope Francis addressed the sexual abuse crisis: Vatican City, 5 April 2013 (VIS) – This morning the Holy Father received in audience Archbishop...
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Breaking: General Efrain Rios Montt Convicted of Genocide in National Courts...
The Maya Ixil community, with the support of the Guatemalan community, and the international community, has just won a monumental achievement in the development of international human rights law....
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Why Pro-life and Pro-choice Advocates Should Find the Common Ground
In his first major interview as pope and in his papacy as a whole, Pope Francis is giving us a unique opportunity to hit the reset button on our approach to abortion. He is rejecting the culture war...
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Believing in the God of Life or Serving the Idols of Death
“Either we believe in the God of life, or we serve the idols of death”—Oscar Romero In the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, November 16, 1989, a group of armed men forced their way into the rectory of the...
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Michael Argenyi’s Victory and How Universities Should Respond
Twenty years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, some exceptionally talented people are still not able to use their talents to heal. Frequently it is the attitude of “normal”...
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How to Create a Church of the Poor
“This is the hour of the poor, of the millions of poor throughout the earth. This is the hour of the mystery of the Mother Church of the Poor, this is the hour of the mystery of Christ above all in the...
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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...
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Pope Francis and a Closer Look at Argentinian Capitalism
Those who dismiss Pope Francis’ concerns about unfettered capitalism on the grounds that being from Argentina makes him naive need to brush up on their history. Paul Ryan has dismissed them on the...
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Crisis at the Border: A Personal Story and Practical Solutions
This month, as I have been hearing of the thousands of children fleeing Central America, the story of one mother and her murdered son keeps coming to my mind. About ten years ago, when I worked as an...
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Vaccines, the Fear of Autism, and the Globalization of Indifference
For those of us who have been following the debate about childhood vaccinations, we’ve heard many arguments about medical evidence, individualism versus the common good, proposed legislative changes to...
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