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REFORM INTERRUPTED. Protesters in front of the White House on Aug. 28.
Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
President Obama’s decision to delay executive measures on immigration until after the November elections drew sharp rebukes from some of the most vocal advocates for immigrants, while others continued to urge specific actions toward reform and analysts weighed whether the delay hurts or helps
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi
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In an address at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Sept. 11, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See’s permanent observer at the United Nations, described the tragic forms of contemporary slavery, such as “massive kidnappings and sale of young girls under the false premises of religi
Migrants walk as they disembark from navy ship in Sicilian harbor of Augusta.
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At least 124,000 migrants entered Italy in the first eight months of this year, more than twice the 60,000 who arrived in all of 2013. The vast majority landed first in Sicily. Seeing to the new arrivals’ immediate needs in Sicily’s multiple port cities is now a joint effort between chur
FAST FOOD, LOW WAGES. A worker joins a nation-wide campaign outside a Midtown Manhattan McDonald’s
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Kevin Clarke
‘I’m doing this for my future, for my sons to have a union,” Jamne Izquierdo said, holding up a sign demanding a better wage outside a McDonald’s restaurant on 8th Avenue and 56th Street in New York on Sept. 4. Izquierdo has worked at a different Manhattan McDonald’s fa
Displaced Iraqi Christians who fled from Islamic State militants pray at school acting as refugee camp in Irbil. (CNS photo/Ahmed Jadallah, Reuters)
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Amnesty International has issued a devastating report detailing summary executions, child abductions, sexual assaults, forced religious conversions and “ethnic cleansing on a historic scale” committed by the Islamic State militant group as it swept across northern Iraq from its base of o
Joe Paprocki leads a session at the 38th annual National Association of Lay Ministry conference held at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, June 3.
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Judith Valente
Chicago Catholics are as feisty and independent as the wind that famously whips across this city from its lakeshore. In decades past, they enthusiastically embraced the labor and Catholic Worker movements. At some parishes today, lay people give sub-radar reflections at Sunday Mass.“Catholics