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If we adopted the International Fixed Calendar, we'd have 13 months. And each month would contain a Friday the 13th.

A reporter for a Ukrainian television network asked to interview me this week for a 4 th of July story they’re running on declining American patriotism.  He had read a piece I wrote on the topic, and seemed genuinely baffled as to why so many Americans, like Olympians Gwen Berry and Megan Rapinoe and so many others, are down on their country. It’s easy to understand his confusion. In the last six years, nearly five million Ukrainians hoping to move to the U.S. have applied for our green ...

"The hemispheric context reveals the roots of the residential school system...Destroying Indigenous cultures was a positivist policy from Patagonia to Dawson City."

Professor Peter Mathieson has created an intolerant and illiberal cancel culture  Lecturers at Edinburgh University are left feeling unable to speak out, staff claim Comes after investigation into lecturer Neil Thin who students blasted as racist One professor at Edinburgh university said countless others support Dr Thin But they fear doing so publicly due to potential backlash from others at the uni

"Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI needs Religion" Considers Theology, Technology, and What They Reveal About Us as Humans in Villanova Professor’s New Book VILLANOVA, Pa.— As humanity continues to brave new worlds—most of them virtual—the need for theology becomes all the more important. Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI needs Religion (Orbis Publishing, 2020), by Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, professor of Systematic and Constructive Theology and the Connelly Chair in Christian Theology in Villa...

We Must Think Beyond Reason: Lessons From 2020 Life since March 23, 2020 – the day lockdown was declared in India – was indoors. But another life, the life of the mind, was elsewhere. However, reason won’t help us understand this shift in our new condition. Representative image. Photo: Yasmina H/Unsplash Society22 hours ago The year 2020 passed by like a ship in troubled waters. Time was slow, and the mind was full of anxiety. Life since March 23, 2020 – the day lockdown was...

Author In 1870s London, at 67 Charlotte Street, there was a grocery shop called le Bel Épicier, run by the Frenchman Victor Richard. Here, a London shopper could find French coffee, mustards, pâtes, cornichon and wines — particularly those from Richard’s native Burgundy. As well as providing much-needed epicurean relief, Richard’s shop was “for many years a head centre, where political refugees, as they arrive from the Continent, go for advice and help in finding lodgings or work,...

Emerging From Violence, a Social and Personal Need This post is also available in: Spanish, French Paper presented by Philippe Moal as part of the Nonviolence axis, during the 8th International Symposium of the World Centre for Humanist Studies, which took place on 16, 17 and 18 April. Thank you for attending this presentation entitled: “Getting out of violence, a social and personal need”. This theme fits in very well with this Symposium: “A New Humanism for a new world”. Freeing ourse...

By Joseph Giglio One trend that has been largely overlooked by the movers and shakers is our aging population. It is one of the forces that will shape society and the global economy over the next decades and governments need to adjust their policies accordingly.  Around the world, workforces are steadily aging. Among the key drivers of a rapidly aging population are declining fertility rates, increased longevity, and the decline in mortality rates. For example, retiring baby boomers in the Uni...

On life’s ‘off-ramp,’ Archbishop Chaput offers timely thoughts This is the cover of the book “Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living” by retired Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia. (CNS photo/courtesy Henry Holt and Company) By Laura Bramon Hassan • Catholic News Service • Posted April 9, 2021 “Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living” by Charles J. Chaput. Henry Holt & Company (New York, 2021). 272 pp, $25.99. “Memento mori” is...