Professor Michael Barnes SJ explores the value attributed to the ‘fourth stage’ of life by various religious traditions.

To embrace silence is to welcome God and hear him speak

Projections show Alternative für Deutschland on 44.4% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt after huge turnout, with votes still being counted

Jessica Powers sees the life of grace through the eyes of Saint Teresa

In today’s newsletter: After a summer of increasing violence and settlement expansion in the West Bank, a Palestinian-American details his experience returning to his besieged village

Designs by Louis Vuitton, suits by Savile Row: these are not your run-of-the-mill teddies. But who’s buying them?

Architect of Srebrenica genocide is dead but those scarred by his atrocities say his ideology is still shockingly pervasive

A wall of water crashed through a Himalayan river valley between Nepal and the Chinese territory of Tibet, the Nepali authorities said. The missing included border officials, port workers and foreign ...

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Ledio Alite discusses Denmark's groundbreaking legislative proposal: a copyright-based legal regime protecting individuals from deepfakes

You start pulling this thread and the whole sweater comes apart:

Even for nonbelievers like me, the pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity