The Critical Reader

07/09/2025

What lesson should we learn from the Texas flash floods?

Also, find ways you can help the community.

06/14/2025

Follow-up on the Critical Reader's article earlier this week.

The Critical Reader called it: He's already on Substack

05/14/2025

What's the role of a pope?

Thanks to social media and the movie “Conclave,” millions of people worldwide followed the death of Pope Francis and the process of selecting a new pope.

05/08/2025

https://dianedipierorodio.substack.com/p/more-teens-with-guns-more-dead-teens

When a teenager enters a school and shoots students and teachers, the country flies flags at half staff, and citizens cry for better gun control and mental health care.

05/07/2025

Trump as Pope? Bad taste, but not as bad as a law in Washington state that will affect Catholic clergy.

But the Church faces even bigger obstacles.

12/09/2024

Monday morning edition

US Woman Arrested in Germany After Stabbing Man She Says Attacked Her

12/05/2024

Now a daily read!

British Lawmakers Advance Assisted Dying Bill

12/04/2024

Morning news update:

More stuff that isn't getting enough attention

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

. Every Thanksgiving, we are called to be grateful for the good around us.

11/18/2024

Wait, it's actually "You've got another THINK coming"?

If mistaken words are used often enough, people start to repeat and transmit them in different forms. Here are some of the most common idioms that people mishear and misunderstand.

11/17/2024

Happy Sunday:

The next chapter in the series "The Bible Is for Feminists"

11/15/2024

"All words are made up." - Thor