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Jim McDermott, S.J., is an associate editor at America.
Dispatches
Much of “Ultron” is explicitly dedicated to saving ordinary people.
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That “$35” ticket for going 75 mph in a 65 on a California highway will actually cost you $234.
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Activists in L.A. say high fees aren't about parking issues but shoring up the budget.
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Today we can respond to any email that we've been delaying in shame, without apology.
Signs Of the Times
National attention was drawn to the Archdiocese of San Francisco in mid-April after a group of about 100 area Catholics placed a full-page advertisement in The San Francisco Chronicle criticizing the leadership of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and asking Pope Francis to remove him.Among those w
In February Pope Francis installed 20 new cardinals. In keeping with the pope’s interest in moving the church “to the peripheries,” these new cardinals hail from all over the world, many from places we rarely hear mentioned in the U.S. press. Most are pastors who have worked with p
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Shortly after midnight Wednesday morning local time the Indonesian government put eight men to death by firing squad It was the first implementation of the death penalty since new President Joko Widodo came to office late last year nbsp Two of the eight were Australian citizens In April of 2005
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A week ago today 100 Catholics in San Francisco placed a full-page advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle criticizing the leadership of Archbishop Salvatore J Cordileone and asking Pope Francis to remove him as local ordinary nbsp As one might expect reactions to this move have been all ov
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A divided archdiocese calls for mercy and imagination, not digging in and building bunkers.