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Theology
Apr 1, 2016

Writing in The New York Times MIT Sherry Turkle asked: “What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so many people say they would rather text than talk?”

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NCR Today
Jan 28, 2016

Morning briefing: Voters warm to non-religious candidates; March for Life gets snowed under blizzard coverage; Trump's feud with Fox steals spotlight from tonight's debate

Morning Briefing

NCR Today
Jan 21, 2016

LGBTQ people need justice, not mercy, from Pope Francis

 

Sixty-two billionaires now own as much wealth as 'the bottom half of humanity'

NCR Today
Jan 19, 2016

Global inequality is reaching “new extremes,” according to a report released  Monday by Oxfam, an international confederation of organizations working to find solutions to poverty. 

The organization’s annual study of inequality was released just before the start of the the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

It found that 62 billionaires now own as much wealth as “the bottom half of humanity,” or roughly 3.6 billion people.