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Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta, speaks at the SIGGRAPH 2024 conference in Denver on July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin Clarke
You know who is not getting rid of fact-checking? The editors and journalists in the much-derided legacy media.
People accept food distributed from a truck by a Haitian government program in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 6, 2020, amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other faith groups then were urging the Trump administration to support debt relief for poor nations. (CNS photo/Jeanty Junior Augustin, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
More than 60 Catholic institutions, congregations and individuals have signed a letter imploring Mr. Biden to endorse a new round of assistance to the world’s most indebted nations from the International Monetary Fund.
Young Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in the northern Gaza Strip Sept. 11, 2024. (OSV News photo/Mahmoud Issa, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Top reports from America's “Dispatches” department include looks at conflict, migration and geopolitics through a Catholic filter.
A pilgrim crosses herself after receiving Communion on her knees July 20, 2024, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis during the National Eucharistic Congress. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
FaithDispatches
Kevin Clarke
A recent missive from Cardinal Blase Cupich to parishioners in Chicago provoked an unusually vitriolic response after the cardinal addressed issues regarding proper liturgical practice on Communion lines.
People celebrate next to a sculpture of Sultan Pasha al-Atrash, a Druze warrior who led a revolt against French rule in 1925, after Syrian rebels announced that they had ousted President Bashar Assad, in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Dec. 9, 2024. (OSV News photo/Shir Torem, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political reality being established by a Sunni militia that is still listed as a terror organization by the U.S. State Department.
Anti-euthanasia protesters demonstrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in July 2017.  (CNS photo/Neil Hall, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
U.K. faith leaders oppose the assisted dying bill: “We believe that a truly compassionate response to the end of life lies in the provision of high-quality palliative care services to all who need them.”
Delegates hold "Mass deportation now!" signs on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee July 17, 2024. (OSV News photo/Brian Snyder, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Around the affluent world, new hostility, resentment and anxiety has been directed at immigrant populations that are emerging as preferred scapegoats for all manner of political and socio-economic shortcomings.
Firefighters stand on a Kamloops Fire Rescue truck at a wildfire near Fort St. John, British Columbia, May 14, 2023. Wildfires have always occurred, but experts say the warming climate is increasing their severity. (OSV News photo/Kamloops Fire Rescue handout via Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Looming on the geopolitical horizon this week is a significant threat to the multinational campaign on climate change that emerged far from Baku, when Donald Trump became president-elect of the United States.
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Clarke
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, Bishop, by Kevin Clarke
A man carries a Hezbollah flag as he walks on the rubble of his destroyed apartment following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Joseph Hazboun, CNEWA’s regional director in Jerusalem, described expanding difficulties for the Christian Arab community on the West Bank but added that nothing, of course, compared to the complete humanitarian breakdown being experienced in Gaza.