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1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Sara Miller Llana |Ali Martin |Erika Page |Peter Ford

The selection of Robert Francis Prevost as the first American pope stunned Vatican watchers around the world. Many had long believed that an American would never be chosen to lead an institution with 1.4 billion followers because the United States already wields so much global power. Taking the name Pope Leo XIV, he stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as tens of thousands gathered below him.

3 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich |Dominique Soguel |Erika Page |Natalie Alcoba

Beatriz Sanabria was on her way to a Buenos Aires soup kitchen when she saw the words painted under a highway overpass in a new light. Her neighborhood, Barrio 31, a low-income community on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, is one where the late Pope Francis once tended to parishioners before becoming Latin America’s first pontiff in 2013. “Caring for the neighborhood and ourselves is our commitment,” read one message.

3 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich |Natalie Alcoba |Erika Page |Dominique Soguel

Beatriz Sanabria was on her way to a Buenos Aires soup kitchen when she saw the words painted under a highway overpass in a new light. Her neighborhood, Barrio 31, a low-income community on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, is one where the late Pope Francis once tended to parishioners before becoming Latin America’s first pontiff in 2013. “Caring for the neighborhood and ourselves is our commitment,” read one message.

Jan 13, 2025 | csmonitor.com | Erika Page

A preschool mandate set up children for successMexico began requiring three years of preschool education in 2004. Children born right after the cutoff date, who went to preschool under the mandate, performed better on math and Spanish tests in fifth and sixth grades than those born right before the cutoff date, a recent study found.  They were also more likely to pay attention in class, take part in extracurricular activities, and do their homework, and less likely to skip classes.

Jan 8, 2025 | csmonitor.com | Erika Page

Researchers developed a powder that efficiently absorbs carbon dioxide from the airCarbon capture is one way to lower CO2 levels in the atmosphere, but scientists have struggled to find materials that hold up to repeated use. Chemists at the University of California, Berkeley have discovered a covalent organic framework they named COP-999. The porous, crystalline material captures 100 times its mass in carbon in a year. That’s about the same carbon capture capacity of a tree.