In his message for the 2022 World Day of Peace, Pope Francis proposed three paths to peace: dialogue between the generations, greater investment in education and job creation.
Economics
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Inflation, infrastructure, Build Back Better: How should we judge the economy during Biden’s first year?
President Biden is playing the long game in trying to revitalize the economy after Covid. It may take a long time to figure out how to measure the results.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The gift of burnout: How quitting my job allowed me to flourish
We should not have to empty ourselves for the company or college.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Making a home in a time of alienation
In her new book, Uprooted, Grace Olmstead investigates the social and personal costs of shopping for a place to live the way we shop for cars.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
The supply chain crisis could save Christmas
The supply chain crisis may mean emptier shelves and later deliveries this Christmas season. So why not use the opportunity to buy fewer and simpler gifts?
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Prime Minister Modi invites Pope Francis to visit India
Meeting at the Vatican with Pope Francis, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended an invitation to Francis to become the third pope in history to visit India.
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
Pope Francis wants you to remember the three T’s: Tierra, Techo, Trabajo (Land, Lodging, Labor)
The pope calls his three T’s—“Tierra, techo, trabajo”—sacred rights.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The pandemic has made Americans more aware of others’ needs. The result? More charitable giving.
A likely increase in 2021 charitable giving is being driven by two factors: increasing financial security and a “heightened sense of people’s needs in the philanthropic marketplace” because of the continuing Covid-19 crisis.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Could Indigenous demonstrations against corruption lead to lasting change in Guatemala?
Guatemala’s historical social inequality has only worsened because of economic deterioration intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic and a political crisis created by President Giammattei’s increasing authoritarian tendencies.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Pope Francis, Virgil and the global economy
Mark Carney’s new book makes a succinct argument: We can either continue on the current path of what some argue is amoral wealth generation in a dehumanizing market society, or we can build new systems, grounded in common values, that encourage growth while stewarding resources for future generations.