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February 2025

Vol. 232 / No. 2

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People celebrate next to a sculpture of Sultan Pasha al-Atrash, a Druze warrior who led a revolt against French rule in 1925, after Syrian rebels announced that they had ousted President Bashar Assad, in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Dec. 9, 2024. (OSV News photo/Shir Torem, Reuters)
Politics & Society The Weekly Dispatch
Kevin ClarkeDecember 11, 2024

Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political reality being established by a Sunni militia that is still listed as a terror organization by the U.S. State Department.

Politics & Society Of Many Things
Sam Sawyer, S.J.January 09, 2025

Americans can learn much about citizenship from Jimmy Carter's public service and humble faith.

Politics & Society Your Take
Our readersJanuary 16, 2025

Can the pro-life movement advance beyond the push to merely outlaw abortion?

Politics & Society Editorials
The EditorsJanuary 16, 2025

Christian hope, as Pope Francis understands it, reminds us that a better and more just world is within our grasp.

Homeless man playing guitar in underpass tunnel (iStock/South_agency)
Politics & Society Short Take
Bill SmithDecember 17, 2024

In my 40 years being homeless and working with the unhoused, I have learned that there is no one major reason why people become homeless.

Quebec provincial flags are displayed outside a building across the street from the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Quebec in Quebec City Oct. 5, 2017. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Politics & Society Dispatches
Miriane Demers-LemayDecember 02, 2024

Quebec has played host to a number of cults and alternative religions over the years, from the Ant Hill Kids, the cruelly abused followers of Roch Thériault to the U.F.O. believers of the Raelian Church.

Authorities in Stilfontein, South Africa, survey the entrance to an abandoned mine shaft, part of a police effort to bring miners below to the surface on Nov. 15. Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/GroundUp (CC BY-ND 4.0).
Politics & Society Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.December 23, 2024

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of illegal miners have been underground in an abandoned mine shaft for more than a month.