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Tsunami And The Triumph Of Hope

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Ten years after a tsunami ravaged villages like this on the Indian Ocean Coast, towns have been rebuilt, lives repaired. [Credit: endignorance.org]

Ten years after a tsuna­mi rav­aged vil­lages like this that line the Indi­an Ocean coast­line, towns have been rebuilt, lives repaired. [Cred­it: endignorance.org]

A decade has passed since a tsuna­mi dev­as­tat­ed vil­lages in 13 Asian coun­tries, which remind­ed me that some­where I have a plas­tic sand­wich bag filled with rupees.

The rupees are among the memen­toes of a woman I cher­ished.  She went to Kudanku­lam, a fish­ing vil­lage on the south­ern tip of the Indi­an sub­con­ti­nent, ten years ago to pro­vide med­ical care to the tsunami’s sur­vivors. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

The Good News Pope Francis Missed

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Pope Francis's inaugural encyclical celebrated the gospel and excoriated markets. But did he overlook some very good news? [Credit: Telegraph]

Pope Fran­cis’s inau­gur­al encycli­cal cel­e­brat­ed the gospel and exco­ri­at­ed mar­kets. But did he over­look some very good news? [Cred­it: Telegraph]

In writ­ing about the joy of the gospel, Pope Fran­cis over­looked some very good news – about mar­kets, about com­pas­sion, about poverty.

His first encycli­cal (Evan­gelii Gaudi­um, “The Joy of The Gospel”) has drawn atten­tion less for its focus on mis­sions than for its eco­nom­ic pro­nounce­ments. Pres­i­dent Oba­ma favor­ably cit­ed the doc­u­ment in his recent remarks on eco­nom­ic mobil­i­ty, while some con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­ta­tors have offered up harsh crit­i­cisms. Con­tin­ue read­ing →