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Heavily armed police guard the streets in down town San Salvador, El Salvador, on March 27. El Salvador's congress has granted President Nayib Bukele request to declare a state of emergency, after a wave of gang-related killings. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dany Díaz Mejía
When gang members were asked about what they must do to exit the gang, a little over half said they must join a church or follow God.
A priest prays with a death-row inmate in 2008 at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Ind. (CNS photo/Tim Hunt, Northwest Indiana Catholic)
FaithShort Take
Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy
Why is it that so many of us shed tears in remembering Christ’s execution on Good Friday yet condone the state-sanctioned killing of our neighbors throughout the rest of the year?
Arts & CultureBooks
Bryan McCarthy
A Columbia professor comes clean about his casual drug use—and thinks the rest of us should think more about harm reduction than eradication when it comes to addictive substances.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Greg Boyle, S.J.
It was after this moment, 30 years ago, that chiefs of police, beginning in Los Angeles and spreading everywhere, started to say, “We cannot arrest our way out” of this.
Politics & SocietyFaith in Focus
Valerie Schultz
Where else would we have listened to each other this way? Not online these days. Not at a school board meeting. Not at a political debate. Not at a family gathering. Not even in church.
Former inmate Lucy Dangana joins in a tailoring training workshop in Abuja, Nigeria's capital in 2021. Photo courtesy of Capio.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Ekpali Saint
Without the Carmelite Prisoners’ Interest Organization, “I would still be suffering in the prison because I had no money to hire the services of a lawyer,” Chisom Eze said. “I had thought my life would end in prison until Capio saved me.”