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April 2023

Vol. 228 / No. 4

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A local resident gestures outside a residential building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Feb. 2, 2023, which was destroyed by a Russian missile strike. (OSV News photo/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Reuters)
Politics & Society Dispatches
Kevin ClarkeFebruary 23, 2023

The staff and volunteers of Caritas Ukraine accept a double duty—agents of humanitarian aid but also, with their families, victims and targets of conflict themselves.

Clouds gather but produce no rain as cracks are seen in the dried-up municipal dam in drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, Nov.14, 2019. In a July 13, 2022, message to participants of a Vatican conference on climate change, Pope Francis said humanity has a "moral obligation" to protect the environment and combat climate change. (CNS photo/Mike Hutchings, Reuters)
Politics & Society Dispatches
America StaffMarch 16, 2023

A recent Pew survey found that overall Catholics show a higher degree of worry about the impact of climate change than other Christian denominations, but the issue appears to divide U.S. Catholics along the same political and racial lines as within the wider public.

A whiteboard with a list of services offered by the Murphy Center
Politics & Society GoodNews
Christopher ParkerFebruary 24, 2023

Prison reform advocates, including the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition and the Urban Institute, have praised the program for having “dramatically changed the field of re-entry in Colorado.”

a child reaches up to a cot mobile with computers and phones hanging from it
Politics & Society Features

Technology is undeniably part of our lives. But when should it be introduced to children, used in schools or integrated into their social lives?

a cross in between two black and white stock image heads with a blue background, the heads face away from each other
Politics & Society Features
Sam Sawyer, S.J.March 16, 2023

What is the way out of polarization? And why does that question—along with the now-commonplace observation that society suffers from deepening divisions about everything from gun control to abortion to public funding for religious schools—seem so exhausting?

Faith Faith and Reason
Nathalie BecquartMarch 16, 2023

In a way, maybe we are living all together as baptized Christians in the synodal process in the same way that the council fathers at Vatican II experienced collegiality in their role as bishops.

Faith Faith in Focus
Mary Kay Jordan FlemingJanuary 27, 2023

It is easy to think of older people as always having existed in their current condition. Does it make us feel younger to think that way? More superior? Perhaps we hope it holds our own mortality at bay.