The current occupant of the White House has now turned his rage on you, my adopted city. I think it is time for a valentine for a troubled city I have come to love.
Last Take
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Why God calls us to build bridges
In an age characterized by all but a desperate need for solidarity, when the religious and secular bonds of community have become badly frayed, bridges real and metaphorical have become more important than ever.
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Cyntoia Brown and how the U.S. criminal justice system fails black women and girls
Cyntoia Brown was 16 years old when she was charged as an adult and convicted of premeditated first-degree murder, felony murder and “especially aggravated robbery.”
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Americans don’t trust the media. Here’s how we can fix that.
It is worth taking a closer look at the role of compassion and empathy in journalism, Richard G. Jones writes.
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Why the Big Bang isn’t what you think it is
The Big Bang is not a theory of the origins of the universe. In fact, we have no scientific theory of the origins of the universe.
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John F. Kennedy’s Irish trip that almost wasn’t
“That’s what I want, a pleasure trip to Ireland,” said the president. It proved to be the stop Kennedy needed after tense, Cold War–era conferences in other European capitals.
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I was annoyed with long customs lines—then I turned on the TV
We need to share our many blessings with immigrants.
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No country can solve Europe’s migration crisis on their own
Any humanitarian action to confront the migration crisis will be met with great difficulties, and as one of the oldest Catholic institutions in the world, it is the Order of Malta’s moral responsibility to find new approaches and methods.
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How my mother helped mentor the first female president of Loyola University New Orleans
Tania is the first woman and the first layperson to lead the university since it was founded by the Jesuits in 1912, writes Cokie Roberts.
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This doctor is helping those on the margins in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
We are called to a life of humble service and radical reliance on God but not to perfection, writes Tom Catena.