Medics are useless if the wounded cannot reach them.
Last Take
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What is the link between mental suffering and artistic creativity?
Robert Lowell, a leader in the confessional poetry movement, suffered from bipolar disorder.
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Patricia Heaton: ‘Iceland isn’t eliminating Down syndrome—they are just killing everyone who has it.’
Close to 100 percent of unborn babies diagnosed with Down syndrome in Iceland are aborted.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
As Catholics and Americans, we can’t sit by while our country destroys the planet
From the Old Testament to Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si’,” Catholicism has recognized and treasured mankind’s intimate relationship with the earth and all the life that calls it home.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. Why are we still celebrating her?
Sanger argued for compulsory sterilization and segregation for people with disabilities.
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When it comes to peace in Israel-Palestine, America isn’t the solution—it’s the problem.
Peace seems no closer than it did before the Oslo Accord.
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Politicians love to quote Reinhold Niebuhr. James Comey actually gets him.
James Comey is perhaps a better Niebuhrian than Niebuhr himself.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
What does it mean to be a black Catholic in 2017?
African-Americans have a deep and troubling history with the Catholic Church.
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When my daughters joined #MeToo, I knew I had to tell my story.
Thanks to social media, thousands of stories of sexual harassment and sexual assault are going viral under the social media movement, #MeToo.
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A colonoscopy isn’t pleasant—but it’s a clear sign of God’s presence.
I sensed God in the heightened awareness of my own mortality.