Some of the tensions still troubling Liberian life have deep social and historical roots.
War and Peace
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Master of wars: U.S. arms sales lead a world of conflict
The United States dominates an annual global weapons export market that has topped $100 billion.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Learning from the United States’ disastrous infatuations with dictators
As a former tyrant languishes in a hospital bed, the U.S. should ponder its routine of coddling military monsters.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope asks for forgiveness for Catholic Church’s role in Rwanda genocide
Pope Francis asked God’s forgiveness for the failures of the Catholic Church during the 1994 Rwanda genocide and for the hatred and violence perpetrated by some priests and religious.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
“Frantz” may be the most Christian film you will see this year.
François Ozon directs a parable set in the years immediately following World War I.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What would Thomas Merton and Daniel Berrigan say about the Benedict Option?
A monk’s vocation is toward God, not a strategic retreat from something else.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
As political landscape shifts, bitter divisions resurface in Northern Ireland
For the first time since the partition of Ireland, Unionists are not in a majority in Stormont, where Northern Ireland’s parliament meets.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
Searching for George W. Bush in his portraits of the soldiers he sent to war
Bush’s new exhibition features 66 paintings of wounded veterans whom the former president has come to know.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Meet the Jesuit priest serving Catholics and Muslims in war-torn Syria
“We find God in every act of mercy we do unto others.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What makes religious organizations so effective at diplomatic peacemaking?
Drew Christiansen, S.J., discusses the significance of religious peacebuilding in struggling countries.