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  • Weighing Papal Words With Wisdom and Discernment

    Weighing Papal Words With Wisdom and Discernment19

    Habemus papam! We have a pope! Like other Catholics in the U.S. and around the world, I was stunned that the conclave of cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel on May 8 chose American Robert Prevost to become the next pope. For years, we’d heard that no American, at least in the foreseeable future, would

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  • Wedding Cakes Have Nothing to Do With Free Speech

    Wedding Cakes Have Nothing to Do With Free Speech0

    The New York Times recently carried an interesting article on the wedding-cake controversy that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. The article pointed out that prominent lawyers who specialize in First Amendment cases are “vexed” by the controversy. The facts of the case are simple: A Colorado bakeshop refused to create a wedding cake

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  • Webcamming: The Sex Work Revolution No One Will Talk About

    Webcamming: The Sex Work Revolution No One Will Talk About0

    The development of the internet has completely transformed the way we do business; and the “oldest profession” is no exception. In a world of online chatrooms, webcam performers can market anything from conversation to explicit sex acts. And unlike pornography or prostitution, there are virtually no laws regulating this form of sex work. Webcamming is

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  • Weathering the Aftershocks of the Pandemic

    Weathering the Aftershocks of the Pandemic0

    Early one morning in mid-May I was drinking a cup of coffee on the front porch of my daughter’s house in Front Royal, Virginia. For weeks I had felt drained of energy, filled not with boredom but with lassitude, putting off cleaning my basement apartment, the books I needed to read for review, a magazine

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  • Weathering Life’s Storms by Rooting Children in a Garden

    Weathering Life’s Storms by Rooting Children in a Garden0

    It was a comfortable August day years ago when my mom herded my sister and me out the back door and into the garden. Working my way through knee-high weeds wasn’t the ideal summer activity for a grade-schooler like myself, but the three of us kept at it, finally stopping to lie in the grass

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  • Wealthy Minnesota School District Treating Its Students Like Racists

    Wealthy Minnesota School District Treating Its Students Like Racists0

    In May, I reported on the controversial social justice curriculum being taught to young students in Edina Public Schools—a wealthy suburban district in Minnesota considered to be among the state’s best. At Edina’s Highlands Elementary this past year, students—even kindergartners and first-graders—were made to participate in a number of projects designed to teach them about

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