Feb 28, 2020
Recently, China cancelled its National People’s Congress over concerns about the coronavirus. The last time this “central event of China’s political calendar” was cancelled was during the Cultural Revolution nearly fifty years ago.
The move increased speculation that Beijing has lost control of the coronavirus...
Feb 27, 2020
On Monday the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving Philadelphia’s Catholic Social Services, a faith-based foster care agency.
The USA Today made its position clear with this headline: "Supreme Court to decide if foster care agencies can snub gay, lesbian couples due to religious objections."
Here's what the...
Feb 26, 2020
Today, Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent, a church tradition that dates back centuries. Ashes are smudged across foreheads with these words, “You are but dust and to dust you will return.”
Recently, some churches have replaced ashes with rainbow glitter, to express what’s called LGBTQ affirmation....
Feb 25, 2020
As former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wrote in the Harvard Business Review, “we live in the most technologically connected age in the history of civilization, yet rates of loneliness have doubled since the 1980s.” We are, he claims, in the midst of a loneliness epidemic.
So, what do people from the “most...
Feb 24, 2020
Last year, churches in the African nation of Burkina Faso, including a Catholic Church in Dablo, were attacked, most likely by Muslim extremists. Six people were shot dead before the church was set on fire, killing another two dozen.
Sadly, since then, the suffering in Burkina Faso has only gotten worse. On February 16,...