“We want to choose [Greenland’s] future ourselves.” A quiet determination runs through the icy streets of Nuuk, which, with its 20,000 inhabitants, is Greenland’s main city. It is Father Tomaž Majcen, a Slovene Franciscan friar, who is describing the atmosphere on the...
Tensions are running high in the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse and US citizen, on 24 January. The federal government alleged that Mr. Pretti was...
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI, by its Italian acronym), reaffirmed the Italian bishops’ opposition to any legislation that would legitimize assisted suicide or euthanasia while also calling for greater investment in...
The Vatican’s doctrine chief warned that blogs and online commentators increasingly claim a theological authority they do not possess, narrowing the church’s ability to holistically engage faith and reality. Opening the plenary assembly of the...
Memory must not turn into a ritual or a “lesson to be checked off,” speakers stressed during the anniversary commemorations at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former German Nazi concentration camp. Survivor Bernard Offen appealed: “Let memory not be a burden. Let it become a...
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