Readings of the last four Sundays are powerful invitations to spiritual renewal.

Perhaps the most important thing about Abraham Lincoln—and what makes him so enduring in the popular memory—was the plain fact that he was so human.

Brian Williams draws my sympathy The NBC anchorman sits in the awkward position of having to be an easy-to-look-at newsreader and a model of absolute trust He never graduated from college though he did a stint at The Catholic University of America in Washington D C But like other newsmakers i

On Feb 12 2005 two hired gunmen killed Sister Dorothy Stang 73 as she read aloud from the Bible in a remote settlement just off the Trans-Amazonian Highway As a tireless advocate for the poor and landless in Brazil for more than nbsp three decades the Ohio-born nun came into conflict with ruth

What would Uber and Airbnb look like if they were designed by the poor and marginalized?

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