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Pope Leo XIV meets with Vice President JD Vance after the formal inauguration of his pontificate at the Vatican on May 18. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
FaithShort Take
Antonio De Loera-Brust
Pope Leo I helped to ensure that Catholicism would outlast the Roman Empire. His name is a reminder that our faith rises above contemporary politics and temporal authority.
A woman holds an American flag as people gather ahead of the inauguration Mass for Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 18. (OSV News photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Timothy Shriver
Leo has sought to be a uniter calling for a more peaceful world. We need leaders who remind us of what is possible, who bring out the best in us while discouraging the worst.
Children play at the Nyumbani Children's Home, which cares for over 100 children with HIV whose parents died of the disease and provides them with housing, care and PEPFAR-supplied anti-retroviral drugs in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Luke Messac
The longer PEPFAR remains hobbled, the greater the number of patients who will suffer the terrifying consequences of stopped treatment—a kind of reverse Lazarus effect.
Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican on May 10, 2025. In his remarks to the cardinals, the pope said that church teaching is relevant to “developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor.” (Vatican Media via AP)
FaithShort Take
Matthew Dunch
In these early days of the A.I. revolution, a lesson from the first Industrial Revolution holds firm. Catholic social teaching instructs us to look beyond machinery to people.
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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nathan Schneider
DOGE is attempting to undermine a congressional check on presidential power. It is rewriting the Constitution.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent walks past four men being detained after crossing the border through a gap in the walls separating Mexico and the United States on Jan. 23, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
J. Kevin Appleby
An early signal that Leo XIV will build upon Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants could show that the church’s efforts are not tied to one pope but to 2,000 years of Catholic teaching.