Allowing heavily indebted nations to walk away from their debts sends precisely the wrong economic signal to private and public international lenders of capital.
Unless we refocus, as a culture, on the value of education beyond material pragmatism, we run the risk of sabotaging an entire generation's ability to meet the future.
Without adequate legal protection and security, the Christian minority and the centuries-old legacy of the faith in Kosovo may soon become a mere memory.
The next step is for Catholic leaders throughout Latin America to offer real alternatives. Here they may wish to study insights offered by the late John Paul II in his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus.
Amid the heated rhetoric and dubious claims made on both sides of the immigration debate - that any concerns about immigration are evidence of racism, that immigrants are ruining the economy - we should all take a deep breath and call to mind the following points....
French students took to the streets again this week in a show of solidarity with themselves. These are the Gallic rites of Spring — protests and demonstrations. Student unrest comes and goes, but the disturbing thing about the student demonstrations this year is that they represent deeper and wider problems that extend far beyond a few cities in France: the spread of economic ignorance and moral apathy.