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Money and marriage: why we mustn’t leave the family in the hands of accountants
(6 minutes) Lewis Lower argues that we need to change how we speak about marriage and family life and resist any temptation to see them in merely economic terms.
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A calm approach to migration
(9 minutes) Migration is an issue which provokes strong disagreements and it is rare to find a balanced assessment of both the challenges and opportunities it presents. But in this article Pablo García Ruiz makes a very good attempt.
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Why work? What my manual labourer father taught me
(5 minutes) A conversation with her father helped Mary Ann Macdonald appreciate that you need to work for deeper motives than money or social prestige.
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How to stop the West from falling apart
(8 minutes) Jenny Sinclair believes that Catholic Social Thought can save us from the social fragmentation which is afflicting the Western world.
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Building the Common Good
(6 minutes) As Western society shows so many signs of disintegration, Jenny Sinclair outlines how we can work together to build a society in which everyone can flourish.
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When framing becomes defaming
(4 minutes) Frames in art are meant to help a work stand out and better express its reality. But José Maria André is concerned that in everyday media framing is often used to distort and even falsify what people are trying to say.
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Could do better: human dignity, what it is and how we could respect it more
(8 minutes) As much as our age claims to respect human dignity, it often fails to do so. Joseph Evans examines a just published Church document which argues we have much room for improvement.
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Dangers and opportunities: the role of religion in the Israel-Hamas war
(5 minutes) The leader of Singapore's Muslims, Nazirudin Mohd Nasir, argues that religion does not have to cause war: it could be used to end the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.
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The cost of pornography
(5 minutes) It is estimated that the pornography industry generates three thousand dollars per second in income. But the real cost is how it is destroying people’s lives, believes Lucía Martínez Alcalde.
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We must learn from Frankenstein’s monster
(8 minutes) We need the humanities more than ever in the 21st century, believes Mary Ann MacDonald.
