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Demonstrators in Washington rally against the death penalty outside the U.S. Supreme Court building Oct. 13, 2021.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
The Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a 6-3 vote.
In this photo Pope Francis kisses Trappist Father Jean-Pierre Schumacher’s hand during a meeting at the cathedral in Rabat, Morocco, March 31, 2019.
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
Father Jean-Pierre Schumacher died 10 minutes after receiving the anointing of the sick at the start of a Mass for the feast of Christ of the King.
A destroyed vehicle is seen inside a house after a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 29, 2021.  (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Christian Braun
The targeted killing of alleged terrorists, through drone strikes or other extralegal means, has no moral basis in contemporary Catholic thinking.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
America Staff
Twenty years after U.S. military action in Afghanistan began, a look back at America's coverage of our nation's longest war.
Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Kandahar, southwest Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Sidiqullah Khan)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Ryan Di Corpo
Our invasions of Afghanistan and Vietnam may have different beginnings, but their ends show that we are capable of repeating basic mistakes, writes Ryan Di Corpo.
Politics & SocietyNews
Gerard O’Connell
These were the first such suicide bombings since June 2019 and came on the eve of the pope’s planned visit to the country on March 5-8, a visit that now is under serious question.