Vatican City (CNA/EWTN News) — Pope Francis on Sunday decried the resurgence of violence in Syria in recent days, especially in Aleppo, and renewed the call to bring about peace through dialogue.
"I receive with deep sorrow the tragic news coming from Syria, about the spiral of violence that continues to aggravate the already desperate humanitarian situation of the country," the pontiff said May 1 after reciting the Regina Caeli address in St. Peter's Square.
Every year, on Martin Luther King Day, NPR plays Dr. King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech from the March on Washington in its entirety. I have made my children listen to it many times. Although we all know the key lines, which will be played over and over on the holiday, it is really worth listening to in full, both for its content, as well as its execution. We clearly have no public figure today with Dr. King's rhetorical skill.
One of the things that makes the speech so inspirational today is that Dr. King was largely prophetic. He tragically predicted in Memphis in 1968, that although God had "allowed [him] to go up to the mountain" and look over to see "the Promised Land," he would not let him "get there" with us.
