Reading Time: 3 minutes A survey shows that independent school graduates are much more likely to work for the common good. How can that be bad?
Tag: Catholicism
The same truths are part of every religious and philosophical tradition
Reading Time: 3 minutes Each of us needs to be true to our mission if we’re to be effective agents of universal change
A spiritual leadership grounded in reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fostering collaboration rather than conflict, the Aga Khan builds bridges between people, religions and cultures to help the world’s most vulnerable
Compassion and tenderness can overcome evil
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s far too easy to look at others as the problem with the world. It’s much harder to see our own commonality as humans
Waiting for enlightenment in fundamentalist Islamic law
Reading Time: 3 minutes Religious authorities still hold on to their power, insisting that completely outdated concepts must stay
How to confront sex abuse in the Catholic church
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we’re to rid the world of this horrendous theft of innocence, we need to approach it the same way we approached the Holocaust
Call for papal apology an affront to religious liberty
Reading Time: 3 minutes MPs telling bishops what to do is a monstrous misunderstanding of the relationship between political power and civil society
The pope, the president and the resurrection of Poland
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan shared a vision of an independent Poland. Together, they helped the country break free from the Soviet bloc
The lasting – and troubling – legacy of Martin Luther
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s now 500 years since Luther threw down the gauntlet, taking on the power of the papacy in an era predating the separation of church and state
In search of the Promised Land
Reading Time: 4 minutes Migration has always been part of the human experience, as people escape natural disasters, drought, famine and/or oppression