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A woman holds an American flag as people gather ahead of the inauguration Mass for Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 18. (OSV News photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Timothy Shriver
Leo has sought to be a uniter calling for a more peaceful world. We need leaders who remind us of what is possible, who bring out the best in us while discouraging the worst.
Children play at the Nyumbani Children's Home, which cares for over 100 children with HIV whose parents died of the disease and provides them with housing, care and PEPFAR-supplied anti-retroviral drugs in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Luke Messac
The longer PEPFAR remains hobbled, the greater the number of patients who will suffer the terrifying consequences of stopped treatment—a kind of reverse Lazarus effect.
Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican on May 10, 2025. In his remarks to the cardinals, the pope said that church teaching is relevant to “developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor.” (Vatican Media via AP)
FaithShort Take
Matthew Dunch
In these early days of the A.I. revolution, a lesson from the first Industrial Revolution holds firm. Catholic social teaching instructs us to look beyond machinery to people.
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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nathan Schneider
DOGE is attempting to undermine a congressional check on presidential power. It is rewriting the Constitution.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent walks past four men being detained after crossing the border through a gap in the walls separating Mexico and the United States on Jan. 23, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
J. Kevin Appleby
An early signal that Leo XIV will build upon Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants could show that the church’s efforts are not tied to one pope but to 2,000 years of Catholic teaching.
The facade of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary at Lourdes in April 2023, when the artwork of Marko Rupnik, a priest and former Jesuit now under investigation for sexual abuse, was still on view. Lourdes officials announced on March 31 that the sanctuary will cover the mosaics on the door of the basilica. (OSV News photo/courtesy Greg Erlandson)
FaithShort Take
Lucy Huh
The contrasting decisions regarding Marko Rupnik’s artwork at Fátima and Lourdes reveal much about the church’s commitment to those who have been harmed.