Attorney General William Barr has set execution dates for four federal prisoners on death row.

With Lebanon celebrating its centenary this year, Cardinal Rai said perhaps it "is passing through the harshest stage" of its existence.

If police officers commit crimes while on duty, "the court has put up a number of hurdles to make it difficult to bring injunctive relief against an entire police department."

Even the most well-meaning prayer vigils against racism can miss the mark because of fuzzy language and a lack of black voices, writes Flora x. Tang. But there are ways to make them more effective.

Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life sponsored an online roundtable of Latino young adults who discussed the topic "Justice and Faith, Family and Community: Latino Leadership in a Time of Crisis."

John Murray, a Catholic, said: "The Irish civil rights movement (that served as a precursor to the Troubles) was directly influenced by the African American civil rights movement of the late 1960s."