On October 13, 2024, Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich broke the women’s marathon World Record by nearly two minutes. She finished the race in a remarkable 2:09:56, which landed her tenth overall in the ...

COMMENTARY: Catholics belong to a communion of Christian disciples, and the challenge is to be agreeable even when disagreement is necessary. Father Basil Burroughs, newly ordained by Archbishop ...

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle lists the virtue of magnanimity among the moral virtues. The magnanimous man is, literally, “great-souled,” because he aspires to great and honorable things, on ...

That is the question on everyone’s minds following the passage of two elements of the judicial reform in their first Knesset reading early Tuesday morning. The passage of the two bills on their first ...

This virtue has been missing for a while. Let’s hope it has not become extinct. We actually need it especially these days when we seem to be deteriorating into a world of constant quarreling, slamming ...

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