By Mark Wilmoth An old Chinese proverb says, “He who asks a question seems a fool for a moment, but he who does not ask remains a fool for life.” One of my old math teachers put it more bluntly: ...

It's hard for Ken Hackett to think of the greatest challenge he experienced during his many years of service with Catholic Relief Services, including 18 as its president. There was t ...

Such are the implicit theses of a subgenre one might term “life-affirming cinema.” At one point in the new film The Life of ...

Just as in the 1930s, the atrocities of the Holocaust did not emerge in a vacuum – nor did they appear overnight. They were ...

A thought-provoking exploration of the Epicurean Paradox—how ancient and modern minds wrestle with the problem of evil and divine goodness.

The number of Haitians forced to flee their homes by terrorizing armed gangs has now hit nearly 1.3 million, the United Nations International Organization for Migration said Wednesday.

Nearly 1.3mn Haitians have been driven from their homes by escalating gang violence, marking the highest level of internal ...

B ased on a short story by Stephen King, Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck begins as a disaster movie, though not the kind one might expect from a guy like King. Early on, we he ...

Haiti, torn by violence and rampaging gangs, is one of five countries in the world facing catastrophic levels of hunger, with ...

This latest article is an inadvertent admission of what many of us already knew; that the BBC has known what's going on all ...

Three United Nations agencies warned on Thursday of looming famine in an area of South Sudan facing violent conflict ...

As built-up areas encroach on natural ones, we need new strategies for dealing with the impact of wildfires on buildings and ...