Africans Criticize Cardinal Kasper’s Remarks

by Matthew Schmitz

Why don’t we turn our ears to Africa—and this time really listen. Continue Reading »

21 Oct 2014

Cardinal Is “Appalled,” Denies Africa Comments Caught on Tape

by Matthew Schmitz

Defenders of offensive remarks left with little ground to stand on. . . . Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2014

Don’t Listen to the Africans, Says Catholic Cardinal

by Matthew Schmitz

Or the Mideast Christians Continue Reading »

15 Oct 2014

Loving and Staying in Goma

by Armin Rosen

Goma airport, the gateway to one of the largest and most strategic cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s unstable and mineral-rich east, is the city’s only connection to distant Kinshasa, the DRC’s capital and a place unreachable from Goma by road. Consequently, it’s also one of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2014

Bono Still Hasn’t Found What He’s Looking For

by Ryan T. Anderson

U2 rock star and humanitarian Bono has come in for some recent criticism. According to Advertising Age (registration required), his (RED) campaign has spent upward of $100 million on advertising to produce a mere $18 million for the Global Fund to support African AIDS programs.A little more than a . . . . Continue Reading »

13 Mar 2007

History in the Past Perfect

by Elizabeth Kristol

Is not the past large enough to let you find some place where you may disport yourself without becoming ridiculous? —Nietzsche It is nothing new for poets, painters, and philosophers to harken back to Utopian “golden ages” when greatness or harmony flourished. The German Romantics . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1991