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'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 declared in India – was indoors. But another life, the life of the mind, was elsewhere. Else...

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, and where, of course, the continental police agents also flock so as to spy upon the land.” Richa...

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 ourselves from violence is one of the necessary conditions to move towards a truly new world. We have one...

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 United States will live longer, but there will not be enough new births to offset the surge in the rank...

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 in vogue these days, from death doulas to funereal composting to hipster reconsiderations of the in...