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Faith Advent Reflections
December 21, 2021
A Reflection for the Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent
Fireworks illuminate the Church of the Nativity as Palestinians light a Christmas tree at Manger Square in Bethlehem, West Bank, Dec. 4, 2021. (CNS photo/Mussa Qawasma, Reuters)
Politics & Society Dispatches
December 20, 2021
Patriarch Sabbah: “When you celebrate Christmas, remember that in Bethlehem, in Jerusalem, life is not a Christmas life. It is not the blessed life of the new redeemed humanity. The song of the Angels is far away.”
Faith Dispatches
December 02, 2021
The case came as an unhappy shock to Catholics all over the United States who might have hoped that years of procedural changes would have put an end to the ordination of priests like the Rev. Robert McWilliams.
A protest near the White House in Washington in July called for freedom in Cuba and urged U.S. President Joe Biden to do more to pressure the Cuban regime. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
Politics & Society Dispatches
November 16, 2021
“Every Cuban should be able to freely and respectfully express and share his personal opinions, his thoughts or his convictions, even when he disagrees with the majority,” the bishops said.
Children attend a Catholic Relief Services school in a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Herat. Photo courtesy of Kevin Hartigan/Catholic Relief Services.
Politics & Society Dispatches
November 05, 2021
C.R.S. is beginning an emergency campaign to get food on tables and crops in the field as a hunger catastrophe looms in Afghanistan.
Politics & Society Dispatches
October 28, 2021
“Having the most powerful political leader in the world and the greatest moral voice of our time talking together about climate change is extremely powerful.”
Politics & Society Explainer
October 22, 2021
The pope calls his three T’s—“Tierra, techo, trabajo”—sacred rights.
People pray during a Catholic service outside the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong as they protest the extradition bill with China June 11, 2019. (CNS photo/Thomas Peter, Reuters)
Politics & Society Dispatches
October 20, 2021
Dialogue is always preferable to confrontation, Cardinal Dolan said. ”[But] my gut also tells me that you can’t negotiate with these people. It could be extraordinarily counterproductive.”
Suspected gang members are presented to the media in San Salvador, El Salvador, in November 2020. (CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters)
Politics & Society Dispatches
October 14, 2021
El Salvador’s contemporary death squads do not engage in political liquidation. Their targets have largely been criminal suspects or innocent bystanders caught up in the violence.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. Thousands of Haitian migrants have been arriving to Del Rio, Texas, as authorities attempt to close the border to stop the flow of migrants. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Politics & Society News Analysis
September 24, 2021
With the likelihood that migration to the U.S. border will only increase in the near term, U.S. officials need to shore up existing structures and create new ones.