Tag: Politics

The Politics of Envy

When toxic envy grows unchecked, it will inevitably destroy an individual, a family, a society —even a civilization. Anne Hendershott argues that the political class, social media, and advertisers have created a culture of covetousness by relentlessly provoking us to envy others and to be envied.

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Saint Catherine of Siena and Her Times

Margaret Roberts tells the moving tale of Catherine, whose call to live a cloistered life of prayer and penance was trumped not only by the poverty and plagues of her day, but by the explicit orders of the Pope, who, hearing of her remarkable powers of reconciliation of enemies, called her out of obscurity to mediate between the warring parties, sometimes even at the risk to her life.

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