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Social entrepreneurship programs, including those that promote sustainable agriculture, can benefit from the principles of the Spiritual Exercises. (iStock)
FaithShort Take
Thane Kreiner
Social entrepreneurs are ideally situated to help manifest the Jesuit mission to end poverty and protect the planet, writes the director of a training and mentorship center at Santa Clara University.
(iStock/JannHuizenga)
FaithShort Take
Addison Del Mastro
A nun’s ability to find humor rather than outrage, to remain humble while believing oneself to be in possession of the truth, is something we can use more of in today’s church.
Mourners hug on March 18 after visiting the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, the site of a terrorist attack last Friday. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Saadia Ahmad
First, reach out to your neighbors and local mosque to show concern and compassion. Then call out those in your life who dehumanize others.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Cecilia González-Andrieu
Asking the question about access to universities overlooks the painful truth that the entire journey of education is profoundly challenging for the poor and people of color.
Long Island City, a riverfront neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York, was the proposed site for a new Amazon headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, FIle)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Paul D. McNelis, S.J.
New York is sending a message that some public officials are no longer willing to play the tax break game, even with giants like Amazon. The rest of the nation should be grateful.
An informal boxing match sometime between 1890 and 1910 (Detroit Publishing Co., P., retrieved from the Library of Congress)
FaithShort Take
Amy Koehlinger
As late as the 1970s, boxing saturated U.S. Catholic culture. It reinforced Catholic ideas about the redemptive value of physical suffering; it also offered a powerful form of assimilation to male Catholic immigrants.