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Centesimus Annus After 30 Years

chinese workers walk down a dirt access road from one of beijing's major air polluters, the capital iron and steel factory, 16 february 2001...

Dorothy Sayers: an unlikely hero of US Catholic education

in the united states, there is a growing reform movement taking place in education, and it isn’t coming from our politicians or our universi...

RIP Hans Kung – A notable renegade and of modern theology

hans küng, who died recently aged 93, was a “great figure in the theology of the last century whose ideas must always make us reflect on the...

We are (Still) Abusing our Elderly

imagine the scene: a man in a chair, emaciated almost beyond recognition, his head listing at the end of a neck too weak to support it; his ...

Responsibility, Accountability, Transparency: The State of Church Reform

over the past few years, journalists – including this vatican watcher – and experts in a host of related or adjacent fields have written ad ...

Christopher Altieri

Not Fabulous: Surrogacy Erases Women

huffpost called it “cheeky.” tan france’s viral announcement photo is nothing of the sort. it is, to use a current buzzword, "erasure." hold...

UK Parliament recognizes Chinese persecution of Uyghurs as genocide

conservative party mps nusrat ghani (c) and iain duncan smith (r) join members of the uyghur community in london on 22 april 2021. (justin t...

St George: The soldier-saint of which little is known for sure

st george by hans von kulmbach c.1510   this brief on the life of st george was originally published in 2013. - ed. st george is patron...

George Floyd Verdict: Prayers for Change

"a sobering moment for our community," is how the archbishop of st. paul-minneapolis, bernard hebda described the situation in the wake of t...

'Humanitarian Catastrophe' as New Wave of Covid-19 Hits Brazil

aerial view of the graves of covid-19 victims at the nossa senhora aparecida cemetery in manaus, amazon state, brazil, on april 15, 2021. (m...

Eduardo Campos Lima