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Local Church•Pope Francis•Young People

The Pope at MED24 asked the young people of the Mediterranean to help the region “recover its expression of fraternity and peace” and stop being “a graveyard”

He did so through a message he sent to the young people participating in Albania at MED 24 in Tirana. Inspired by the previous Mediterranean Meetings, the event aims to create a spirit of fraternity following Francis’ call to build bridges of dialogue between the different religions and cultures of the Mediterranean.

Analysis Opinion•Woman

The Rise of Living Alone

As Crooks noted in Of Mice and Men, when people get lonely, they can get sick, and this becomes a public health problem. Research finds that loneliness and lack of social connection increase the risk of disease, anxiety, depression, dementia, and premature death.

Analysis Opinion•Young People

Frequent Porn Use Is Linked to Negative Mental Health Among Gen-Z and Millennials

In a new Institute for Family Studies/YouGov survey of 2,000 adults under age 40, we found that pornography has become a daily part of life for many young adults. This survey defines porn as “pornography with explicit sexual content.” About 1-in-10 Gen Z (ages 18-27) and younger Millennials (ages 28 to 39) report watching porn online at least once a day.

Analysis Opinion

Kirill: Russian culture and the salvation of the world

Trying not to limit himself to the usual statements of state propaganda amid the universal conflict between Russia and the West, the Patriarch of Moscow spoke a few days ago in St Petersburg using philosophical and literary arguments to further explain the reasons why Russia today feels called to spread the “great values” that universal society has seemingly abandoned.

Analysis Opinion•Pope Francis•Vatican Diplomacy

Vatican’s dialogue with China and Pope Francis’ realism

In the last six years, also marked by a period of rare contact in relations between the parties during the pandemic, nine new Catholic bishops have been ordained in China. In the same period, eight so-called «non-official» bishops, ordained in the past outside the procedures imposed by the Chinese apparatus, have asked for and obtained public recognition of their function also from the political authorities in Beijing