How does digital access cross the last mile?
Technology
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We should pay less attention to polls. Pope Francis would agree.
The popular “scientific” discourse around election forecasting has once again proven disappointingly misguided, at best, and fraudulent, at worst. Our democracy deserves better.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Screen time is officially part of Catholic Social Teaching. What does it mean for us and our iPhones?
The church needs to pay more attention to the moral impact of screens on our identity, agency and relationships.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Teen was ‘influencer for God,’ mother says on eve of son’s beatification
In his exhortation on young people, “Christus Vivit” (“Christ Lives”), Pope Francis said Acutis was a role model for young people today who are often tempted by the traps of “self-absorption, isolation and empty pleasure.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Catholic ‘Shark Tank’ invests in innovation to meet the needs of the modern church
At the first-ever OSV Innovation Challenge’s virtual Demo Day, three Catholic enterprises walked away with $100,000. Here’s how they plan to support the mission of the church.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What we lose when we teach—and learn—online
Has the coronavirus revealed that a good college education can be obtained online? No, writes Firmin DeBrabander, there is no substitute for three-dimensional debate.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Justice Department urged to aggressively prosecute pornography vendors
On April 30, Archbishops Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco and Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City and Bishop David A. Konderla of Tulsa, Oklahoma, wrote Barr to request stepped-up prosecutions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Editor’s note: Welcome to Spring Books 2020
From features on contemporary writers to looks back at some of our greatest literary figures, along with poetry, biography, social criticism and more, our Spring Books 2020 issue has something for everyone (well, almost everyone).
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Thomas Edison’s life of ceaseless action
He is most well known for inventing the light bulb and the phonograph, but Thomas Edison patented 1,093 “machines, systems, processes, and phenomena.” In 1881, Edmund Morris writes, Edison was “executing, on average, one new patent every four days.”
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: How location data can help the Vatican’s COVID-19 response
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Molly Burhans explains how location data can help the church use its resources more efficiently to extend care to the greatest number of people.