Improvements in health care in Eswatini have relied for years on Pepper and the generosity of the American people. During the height of the H.I.V./AIDS pandemic, Eswatini’s population plummeted, and life expectancy dropped from 61 in 1988 to 44 by 2003.

What did Papa Francisco see that we need to see? What tools do we have so we can choose correctly? And how do we act following our discernment?

“Carney is responding to the [immigration] backlash but also to the Trump effect, which is placing more pressure on Canada to tighten its border.”

The war in Gaza has become one in which “the heart-rending price is being paid by children, the elderly and the sick.” Israel, along with its allies, especially including the United States, must reckon that cost as well.

”Do not collaborate in the fight against migrants by the great colonizing countries.”

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Superior, who had asked the high court to overturn a decision by the state supreme court that the agency argued discounted its religious identity.