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HAITI/ Benzoliv: The miracle tree for a sustainable future in Haiti

AVSI reports on a workshop in Haiti where a national program was launched for the promotion of Benzoliv, a tropical plant known as “miracle tree” for its nutritional benefits
5/25/2013
Editors

NATURAL RIGHTS/ Gosnell, Law, and Modest First Steps

The Gosnell case shows us that a society’s laws teach: if they teach a lesson of injustice they will corrupt its people over time. By CHRISTOPHER TOLLEFSEN
5/24/2013
Christopher Tollefsen

US/ Immigration Reform Clears A Hurdle

Comprehensive Immigration Reform cleared its first major legislative hurdle as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 to send the bill to the full Senate. By MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS
5/23/2013
Michael Sean Winters

SECULARISM/ If the hatred of the body becomes preventive medicine

LORENZO ALBACETE takes the clue from Angelina Jolie's breasts removals to point out how the modern secularist mentality might disguise its hatred of the body as preventive medicine
5/22/2013
Lorenzo Albacete

ECONOMIC FREEDOM/ 3. Conservatives and the Non-Triumph of Capitalism

SAMUEL GREGG, in Public Discourse, intervenes in the debate about conservatism and capitalism at First Thing, and highlights the need for principled defenses of economic freedom
5/20/2013
Samuel Gregg

CHESTERTON / That "prophecy" on Wall Street bankers

Chesterton and his distributist friends identified in the "servile state", whether capitalist or Marxist, the servitude of man to the state or to the boss. By PAOLO GULISANO
5/19/2013
Paolo Gulisano

UGANDA/ Women’s enterprises boost income, household communication

The Women Income Generation Support Program, managed by AVSI-USA, is an innovative program of economic assistance and social support to young women and their children in northern Uganda
5/18/2013
Editors

US/ Immigration Reform Risks to Fail, Again

SHARON MOLLERUS describes the present situation of the bipartisan attempts at reforming the immigration laws, as called for by the Catholic bishops and many other religious leaders
5/17/2013
Sharon Mollerus

MAKING IT MUTUAL/ Establishing a local banking sector

GUY OPPERMAN MP reflects on how a local banking sector can deliver economic growth and on the ways to achieve a satisfactory level of diversification in the banking system in the UK
5/16/2013
Guy Opperman

HEALTH CARE/ Albacete: Can “Your Doctor” be reduced to computer printouts?

The modern health care system has advantages but to develop a human relation between the patient and the physician, an important factor in therapy, becomes difficult. By LORENZO ALBACETE
5/15/2013
Lorenzo Albacete

POVERTY/ What does it really mean and how can it be measured?

What definition of poverty should be considered to increase welfare policy efficiency? Welfare measure must tackle its multiple levels, lest it should fail, argues LORENA PAPAMANCI
5/13/2013
Lorena Papamanci

IDEOLOGY AND LUCRE/ After Beauty

Just as our culture’s rejection of an essential human nature devastated our moral thought, so too our rejection of the concept of form has made our artwork incoherent. By MARK SIGNORELLI
5/13/2013
Mark Anthony Signorelli

LIFE/ The case does not exist

Every life story has a destiny, is for a purpose. To live it with truth and maturity requires a work, a reality check, to become the subject of a larger dialogue. By FEDERICO PICCHETTO
5/12/2013
Federico Pichetto

12 MAY/ Mother’s Day

Older people may have less energy than the young, and they can paralyze relationships if we let them. But we all know the commandment: “Honor thy father and mother.” By Sr. MARY ANN WALSH
5/11/2013
Mary Ann Walsh

AFGHANISTAN/ What Fiction Can Tell Us about it

Why are Americans in Afghanistan? People are at the heart of what Americans are doing there. Novels can help understand them and their cultures in all their complexity. By JENNIFER BRYSON
5/10/2013
Jennifer Bryson

THE UNDOCUMENTED/ A movie on the tragedy of immigration

The movie “The Undocumented” dramatically shows how migrants continue to die in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona, in an effort to walk into the United States. By ALLISON SALERNO
5/10/2013
Allison Salerno

ECONOMIC FREEDOM/ 2. Conservative Debate at "First Things"

After Mirror of Justice’s Richard Garnett, MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS intervenes in his blog Distinctly Catholic (NC Reporter) on the debate about conservatism and capitalism at First Things
5/9/2013
Michael Sean Winters

CLEVELAND KIDNAPPINGS/ When “amber alerts” are not sufficient

In the past decades many layers of protection have been established in the US to prevent children from being kidnapped. But apparently something is still missing. By REBECCA VITZ CHERICO
5/9/2013
Rebecca Cherico

US/ The President, Planned Parenthood, and "Quality Health Care"

President Obama’s recent address to Planned Parenthood sweepingly mischaracterized abortion restrictions and pro-life views as culturally inaccurate and outdated. By ELISE ITALIANO
5/8/2013
Elise Italiano

NEW JERSEY/ Spider Man, a small spider and the unborn

LORENZO ALBACETE comments on the negative reaction of animalists to the killing of a spider, because they claim that even the smallest animals deserve compassion. What about unborn humans?
5/8/2013
Lorenzo Albacete
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