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Welcome back to our weekly reading roundup. Before you see what we’re loving elsewhere, don’t miss E. Young's review of Orfeu negro. As long as you’re here, why not subscribe to the Global...
This week, we’re delving into some fascinating longreads on subjects as wide ranging as the bizarre industry swirling around horseshoe crab blood, what happens while survivors of childhood...
This weekend, Meghan Cox Gurdon opined in The Wall Street Journal that the current generation of young adult fiction is 'too dark' for readers; 'So dark that kidnapping and pederasty and incest and...
While the attention of the world has been drawn by recent shocking revelations in the ongoing abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, the Northern California town of Fort Bragg has been riveted by an...
It has been a busy year in Irish politics – and hectic to say the least: first the never-ending revelations into Catholic sex abuse finally implicated the state, then the public was treated to the...
Resignations of bishops is the issue of the day in the Irish Catholic Church. The initial shock of the Murphy Report has worn off, probably because many who opine on its contents have not taken the...
Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed...
Matthew 25:40 Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Last week, the Report by Commission of Investigation into...
In a state which devalues the lives of its poorest, most vulnerable citizens, one young child has paid the ultimate price for California’s gross negligence in overseeing his care. Dae’von Bailey,...