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The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass

By Jana Riess — May 3, 2024
(RNS) — Melissa said it's not enough to memorialize our loved ones who die too young. We have to carry on their work.
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Since Oct. 7, we have been in an earthquake

By Jeffrey Salkin — May 3, 2024
(RNS) — More than 200 years ago, an earthquake shattered faith. We are living in similar times.

Despair in the Holy Land

By Thomas Reese — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — We have to persevere for peace and have hope because the alternative is too terrible to imagine.

What didn’t happen on Passover?

By Jeffrey Salkin — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — It is not only history. Read to the end for my message to the anti-Israel crowd.

Can secular health care institutions be trusted to make a moral brain death policy?

By Charles C. Camosy — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — A lack of consensus on the definition of ‘brain death’ has led to a default policy that declares living people dead.

In ‘Infinite Dignity,’ the Vatican defends people, not politics

By Phyllis Zagano — April 26, 2024
(RNS) — Tackling matters that are the topic of political debates today, the document drew more controversy than intended.

A Jan. 6 antisemite is sent to prison. What do the presidential candidates say?

By Mark Silk — April 25, 2024
(RNS) — One condemns antisemitism. The other holds former Proud Boys up as victims.

Resisting our ‘new dark age’

By Karen Swallow Prior — April 25, 2024
(RNS) — In a time of information excess, the need of the moment is more love and more rest.

What’s happening at Columbia is monumental

By Omar Suleiman — April 24, 2024
(RNS) — Columbia’s students have a long history of protesting injustice — which the school has regretted squashing in the past. Will it make the same mistake?

Columbia University is another Charlottesville

By Jeffrey Salkin — April 24, 2024
(RNS) — Columbia University protests are like Charlottesville’s ‘Unite the Right’ rally: Discuss. Welcome to an academic disgrace.

Pope Francis needs to stop treating Vatican officials like princes

By Thomas Reese — April 23, 2024
(RNS) — The only way to kill the papal court is to stop making Vatican officials bishops and cardinals.

Are we all wicked children?

By Jeffrey Salkin — April 22, 2024
(RNS) — I like wicked and rebellious children. They make me think.

How to choose a great wine for Passover

By Jeffrey Salkin — April 19, 2024
(RNS) — Red wine, or white, for Passover? This year, why you might choose white wine.
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