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A man sits on a snowy street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In January, the city of Toronto began collecting data for the first time on deaths among its homeless population. (Photo via iStock)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dean Dettloff
Every month a group gathers at Holy Trinity Church to hold a vigil for those who have died homeless in Toronto.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Senate proposal could “wreak havoc on low-income families and struggling communities, and must not be supported,” the bishops said in a statement released on Thursday evening.  
Pemex’s network of pipelines is an easy target for gangs who puncture the ducts and siphon the fuel to sell. (Esdelval/iStock)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Thieves are puncturing fuel pipelines in Mexico and siphoning profits from the national oil company.
Los Angeles ordinations in 2017. Photo courtesy of the Jesuit Conference.
FaithDispatches
Jim McDermott
The consolidation is a work in progress. The brethren have mixed feelings about it, and their provincials know it.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Rhona Tarrant
The international press lauded the election of an openly gay son of an Indian immigrant as a sign of how progressive our tiny little island had become.
The infamous garage octopus. Photo courtesy of Richard Conlin.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Tim Padgett
Rising seas due to global warming have rendered the coastal high-water marks more obsolete by the day. That is especially true in the Miami area, which every media report on sea-level rise seems to profile as ground zero for deluge doom.