Politics

By Tom Snyder and Ted Baehr, CNSNews - The documentary “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word” depicts the Pope’s worldview on social, spiritual, and political issues.... It shows Pope Francis reciting a litany of ills. Wars, violence, terrorism, environmental destruction, and poverty are major themes. He says Earth will soon have 8 billion people, and 1 billion will be poor... But the number of people in extreme poverty has fallen for three decades.

By Jonathan B. Coe, Crisis Magazine - Fifteen years ago, (Mexifornia: A State of Becoming) emerged as a cautionary tale in which the reader was warned that, if current immigration policy doesn’t change in the U.S., what will emerge is something that looks like many towns in central California: half Mexico, half America, and hurtling toward significant cultural and economic decline… The essay’s prescriptions of, among other things, increased border security and a strong emphasis on assimilation for the non-citizen, now seem self-evident, especially in the light of recent data.

By Bob Kellogg, OneNewsNow - DePaul University recently brought in prostitutes to the controversial event – referring to them as "sex workers.” One prostitute even stated that she was in "training to become a professional dominatrix," according to Campus Reform... Cultural analyst and author of Children at Risk, Janice Crouse, believes that DePaul is being contradictory... "DePaul University is a private Catholic university, but this program that they are advancing – and these ideas that they are advancing – are coming from the Women's Center and the Design Center”...