The Gospel passage today is Luke’s version of the beatitudes. It is critical to understand that beatitude is not something we ...

New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act ...

In December 2024, Geoff Hinton, who is often called the “godfather of AI” and who had just won the Nobel Prize in Physics, ...

Trump-administration officials also have made clear in recent days that they expect European allies in NATO to take primary ...

Justice does not require conquest and coercion. It is achieved through mercy and compassion. A soft word is stronger than the sword.

The Oscar-nominated short 'The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent,' is based on a real atrocity that occurred during the Bosnian ...

There are supposed to be two checks on Trump’s power, of course: the courts and Congress. But Congress, particularly in the Trump era and almost entirely through the indifference of Republicans, has ...

Our society is showing too little care or concern for loss of life. Other than the Columbine mass shooting in 1999, Sandy ...

Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (2021), like many works of apocalyptic fiction, is set in a world facing an existential threat.

If the pregnancy is because of failure of birth control, or impulsive mistake, it is not free will. But sometimes, and I ...

The pleasurable urge to move to music—to groove—appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we generally ...