This is a big deal: Wind and sun are on track to overtake fossil fuels as a power source in the EU. That is, gas, coal and lignite combined. As recently as 2021, the ratio was 2:1.

Really helpful explainer from Sebastian Gomes, Molly Cahill, and the America Magazine team here. youtube.com/watch?v=zPgY13…

Girard contra (a power-nationalist reading of) Girard.

I watched this video with our children this morning before school. They're so proud of their father. 🥰

Loved discussing "charm" with the amazing Claire Potter! (trigger warning: we also talked about the Royal Family!)

While Steward was busy shutting down hospitals all over America, Dr. de la Torre and his companies received $250 million in compensation that he used to purchase a $40 million yacht. Enough is enough. Private equity vultures cannot be allowed to destroy our health care system.

to be understood as to understand,

A baby with Down syndrome meeting his baby sibling for the first time. 🤍

“And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.” —Leviticus 19:33-34

The older I get, the more I appreciate John Stott.

ICYM, Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Alvarez, forced into exile, has been chosen by Pope Francis to participate in the second assembly of the Synod on Synodality, taking place in Rome this October.

The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.

King Charles III reciting Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'God's Grandeur.' The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

Goodnight

The blood of San Gennaro (St. Januarius) has miraculously liquified today, despite being over 1700 years old.

Proud of Ryan Maddigan (history major, LUC '25) for his article in the The Loyola Phoenix about why his classmates should take an upper-level history class while they're at Loyola University Chicago. Desire for the humanities alive and well in the hearts of Gen Z. loyolaphoenix.com/2024/09/why-yo…

Just beautiful by Peter Quinn: memories of long-gone youth arrive "in blazing technicolor. I re-encounter myself, the boy who’s been there all along, alive and well—who, beneath wrinkled flesh, ruined gait, never changed. Who will be there until the end." commonwealmagazine.org/paring-down-le…

Great to hear my friend and Loyola University Chicago colleague Joe Vukov talk about how to stay human in an age of AI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amd…

Come see us at the Jesuit community for Java with the Jesuits tomorrow morning!!

Yet another way to refuse life. dailynous.com/2024/09/20/thi…