Until recently, I was a director of data science at Thomson Reuters, one of the biggest news organizations in the world. It was my job, among other things, to sift through reams of numbers and figure out what they meant. About a year ago, I
The white supremacist arrested for killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket on Sunday did not leave much room for doubt as to why he allegedly carried out such a heinous and horrific act. In a lengthy and unhinged manifesto, he made reference to the
An Ohio school on Thursday agreed to settle with a Christian professor after a federal appeals court last year upheld his right not to address students in class by pronouns inconsistent with their sex. Shawnee State University agreed to pay Nicholas Meriwether $400,000 in damages
Editor’s note: Two of the most influential Catholic prelates in Europe have advocated publicly in recent months for the Church to change its teaching on homosexuality. In February, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., the archbishop of Luxembourg who serves as president of the Commission of the Bishops’
Children are being targeted with sexual content—not just in social media, but also in school curriculums. As with other recent controversies, however, leaders in Florida are fighting back. Lawmakers in the Sunshine State have introduced a new bill, Parental Rights in Education. If the name doesn’t ring a
With his latest sculpture, a Catholic artist hopes to draw attention to the devastating reality of modern-day human trafficking. The piece depicts ex-slave St. Josephine Bakhita, whose feast day is celebrated on Feb. 8, a day which also marks the eighth annual World Day of Prayer and
Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. “I’m here because I’m a Negro, a nun, a Catholic, and because I want to bear witness,” Sister Mary Antona
I first met Erika Bachiochi—then Erika Schubert—in July 1998, when she was my student in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society in Cracow. She had graduated from Middlebury College two years before and was doing a master’s program in theology at Boston College,
Republican Virginia Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears challenged MSNBC host Joy Reid to invite her on her show after the liberal pundit called Republicans “dangerous” following Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial win Tuesday night. “You have to be willing to vocalize that these Republicans are dangerous,” Reid said. “That this
Most of us have a profound appreciation for our mothers that transcends description. As great as many fathers are, usually it is our mothers who have a more persistent and pervasive impact on our lives. Motherhood is highly valued, even revered, by individuals and in
