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Dispatches
Jim McDermott
Most clergy want to know if their style is not working, or if they could be doing something better. Could there be an app for that?
People light candles in tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks, outside the French Embassy in Berlin, Germany, Nov. 13. Dozens of people were killed in a series of attacks in Paris Nov. 13. (CNS photo/Lukas Schulze, EPA)
Dispatches
David Stewart
The cheery rosy-faced London “bobby” was nowhere to be seen. In his place were pairs of flak-jacketed and heavily-armed Metropolitan Police and there were rumors that the SAS, Britain’s elite special forces, were on the streets too.
A woman mourns in Republique square in Paris Nov. 14 as people gather in memory of victims of terrorist attacks. Coordinated attacks the previous evening claimed the lives of 129 people. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Some of the terrorists were heard shouting out “Allah u-Akbar” (“Allah is Great!”) as they launched their deadly attacks in Paris.
Outside the Bataclan, a survivor puts his cellphone to use. Dozens of people were killed in a series of attacks in Paris on Nov. 13. (CNS photo/Etienne Laurent, EPA)
Dispatches
Quentin Dupont, S.J.
Some of Paris’ wounds are hidden; others are quite literally buried. Friday night’s events showed us the bloody gash of violence and opened up a new and seemingly more terrible wound.
Death penalty opponent protests outside Georgia prison
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
The state's choice of language casts executions in a similarly reassuring,“it’s better this way” kind of light as assisted suicide.
Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi is surrounded by the media after a Nov. 4 news conference for his new book "Merchants in the Temple: Inside Pope Francis' Secret Battle Against Corruption in the Vatican." (CNS photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi could be charged for “conspiring in the crime of divulgation of confidential news and documents.”