Essay: How COVID-19 is changing the English language
In an article first published on The Conversation, ROGER J KREUZ, professor of psychology at the University of Memphis, looks at the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on language…
Ardeth Platte, Dominican nun dedicated to no-nukes cause, dies in the US at 84
RNS Sister Ardeth Platte, a Dominican order nun who fought for nuclear disarmament and later served as an inspiration for a character on the popular Netflix show Orange Is the New Black, died in her sleep at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday. Platte, 84, who often worked in tandem […]
Sight-Seeing: Beware of wolves – no matter what they’re wearing
UK pastor RICHARD KINGSLEY THOMAS looks at why we need to beware of wolves in the church…
Cardinal Pell returns to Vatican mired in financial scandal
Rome, ItalyAP Cardinal George Pell, who left the Vatican in 2017 to face child sexual abuse charges in Australia, returned to Rome on Wednesday to find a Holy See mired in the type of corruption scandal he worked to expose and clean up. The 79-year-old Pell arrived at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport on a […]