Caritas celebrates its ‘local heroes’ who provide compassion, aid worldwide

Caritas Internationalis was marking World Humanitarian Day, Aug. 19, with the campaign, “Our Local Heroes,” as a way to thank Caritas staff “for their service, for their professionalism and effectiveness, for their heart, for their compassion, for their solidarity, for the hope they bring,” and to call for needed action.

Old guard looks to new generation of voices on nuclear disarmament

Kelsey Davenport admits that the Cold War and “the impending doom of nuclear annihilation” is not something she recalls while growing up in her native Marquette, Michigan, even though her family lived not far from a now-closed airbase that was a key part of the U.S. nuclear triad.