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Demonstrators protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban on refugees and people from seven mainly-Muslim countries, in London on Jan. 30. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
David Stewart
Though the rallies were billed primarily as protests against the invitation to President Donald J. Trump, protesters also condemned the new U.S. administration’s travel ban against seven majority-Muslim countries.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Michael L. Hahn, O.S.B.
College charisms are not relics but principles for an age of political uncertainty.
Protesters hold signs as they listen to speakers at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation's immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-protecting "sanctuary cities." (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Cardinal Tobin: "Closing borders and building walls are not rational acts.... Mass detentions and wholesale deportation benefit no one; such inhuman policies destroy families and communities."
Politics & SocietyShort Take
John Garvey
Would you not love and admire a country that opened its doors to the tired, the poor, the wretched and the homeless?
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Francis wrote, "our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding farsighted and united political responses."
Politics & SocietyVideo
America Video
Pope Francis has called for a church that is more welcoming to people with disabilities. A unique program in the Archdiocese of Washington is living out this vision.