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Members of Community Renewal International at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the front porch of its 10th Friendship House on Sept. 15, 2017, in the Highland neighborhood of Shreveport, La. (Photo courtesy of Community Renewal International)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Tim Muldoon
What did four Shreveport neighborhoods with plunging crime rates have in common? They had Friendship Houses, opened and operated by Community Renewal International.
Justice Hardy, a writer on the television series "True Lies," holds up a sign as members of The Writers Guild of America picket outside Warner Bros. Studios, on May 2, 2023, in Burbank, Calif. The use of ChatGPT is as controversial in the entertainment industry as it is in schools. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
LuElla D'Amico
Even writing instructors are being pressured to use ChatGPT, and to allow their students to use it. But if allow such shortcuts in the creative process, we endanger our students’ psychological development.
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis emphasized in particular “the urgent need for ‘gestures of humanity’ towards the most fragile persons, the innocent victims of the conflict.”
pope francis at right shakes the hand of giorgia meloni at left, both are wearing white clothes in front of a dark background
Politics & SocietyNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Pope Francis joined Giorgia Meloni in encouraging young Italians to have more children, saying, “Let us not resign ourselves to sterile dullness and pessimism.”
A pedestrian passes before campaign billboards of Turkish President and People's Alliance's presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and CHP party leader and Nation Alliance's presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Istanbul on May 5. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Miriane Demers-Lemay
Election results could indicate the populist Islamism promoted by President Erdogan may be losing its appeal.
pope francis sits across from president volodymyr zelensky in the vatican
Politics & SocietyNews
Gerard O’Connell
President Zelensky could visit Pope Francis in his possible trip to Rome this weekend, which would be an extraordinary and highly significant development.