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Signs Of the Times
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“We hope to highlight the importance of prayer as a reasonable and efficacious response to the violence that has touched too many communities in our nation.”
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Rhona Tarrant
Once over money and territory, violence in the country has taken a more destructive turn.
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Teresa DonnellanWyatt Massey
Sister Sandy Sherman thought she would follow the traditional route of women religious, joining the ranks of the Catholic teachers who had inspired her.“I thought I would enter and I would teach school my whole life and I would wear a habit,” said Sherman, who joined the Order of Saint U
Participants walk during a call for an end to violence in their community June 17 in Chicago. The march followed a rally in front of St. Sabina Church. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway)
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Judith Valente
Chicago’s long, hot summer of shootings came to an end over the three-day Labor Day weekend, with 65 people shot, 13 fatally, as homicides climbed toward 500 for the year. August was already on record as the city’s deadliest month in more than two decades.The wounded included a youn
Area deforested by illegal gold mining seen in Peru. (Reuters photo)
Signs Of the Times
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Large-scale mining and extractive operations are failing to deliver economic benefits while causing environmental damage and human suffering throughout Latin America.
The Georgetown campus. (Wikicommons)
Signs Of the Times
Michael J. O’Loughlin
In order to come to terms with the sale of 272 slaves to two Louisiana businessmen in 1838, Georgetown University and the Jesuits of Maryland should offer a formal apology and enact a series of reforms. They include renaming buildings, offering financial aid to the descendants of those slaves and co