It may or may not be apocryphal, but there is an infamous World War II era quote attributed to Russian dictator Josef Stalin in which he responded to the suggestion that the leader of the Catholic church might be able to use his moral influence to help resolve a portion of the conflict. “The Pope?” […]

It would be silly to claim that there aren’t a lot of things in the modern world about which to be deeply concerned or even, at times, fearful. There’s the ongoing global environmental emergency, the resurgence of war and authoritarianism, the many uncertainties surrounding the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the plague of poverty and […]