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Francis in America

May 18, 2015

Vol. 212 / No. 17

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Signs Of the Times
Tim PadgettMay 06, 2015

Since its launch in 1994 the Summit of the Americas had become best known for two very dismal features.

HOPE BUILDING. Archbishop William Lori tours West Baltimore the morning after civil unrest brought national attention to conditions in the city’s Sandtown neighborhood.
Signs Of the Times
Kevin ClarkeMay 06, 2015

Three days after Archbishop William Lori’s city of Baltimore was rocked by civil unrest that began as a young man who died while in police custody was laid to rest, the archbishop was pondering how the local church could respond to the crisis in the city’s streets.“We’re not

Forgotten Abyei
Signs Of the Times

Catholic workers in the contested region of Abyei, who complained in April that the world has lost interest in the unresolved border feud between Sudan and South Sudan, are launching new efforts to make peace between the two ethnic groups that claim the isolated region. • For a Vatican charity

Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’ConnellMay 06, 2015

The drowning of 900 migrants from many countries in the Mediterranean on the night of April 18 jolted consciences worldwide. It was but the latest, though the worst, in a series of similar tragedies in the sea between North Africa and Europe in recent years: 3,200 drowned last year, over 1,700 so fa

Washington Front
John CarrMay 06, 2015

We should avoid the temptation to adapt our faith to advance our politics.