Voices
Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Father Dan Corrou says all Jesuit Refugee Service operations have been suspended. Many of the agency’s employees, like thousands of other residents of southern Lebanon, are fleeing toward Beirut or making plans to.
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Juan López was gunned down as he was leaving Mass by a still unidentified assassin, becoming the latest casualty among defenders of creation and Indigenous and human rights in Honduras.
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
In the debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Trump claimed without evidence that members of an Ohio city’s growing Haitian community were “eating cats; they’re eating dogs … they’re eating pets.”
FaithScripture Reflections
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Indonesia sees itself as a site of calm and tolerance during a time when different faiths come into ruinous conflict in other nations, a self-image undermined by flare-ups of religiously motivated violence.
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Migration has been a defining reality of the human experience; that is not going to change because of 19th-century innovations like national borders.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jesuits: The “unpunished and unjustified confiscation” of UCA has done “inestimable damage to the scientific and cultural heritage of Nicaragua.”
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Dark days indeed appear to be looming ahead for Lebanon. Forces far beyond the control of its already embattled citizens—plagued by years of economic and political instability—are dictating their nation’s future.
FaithScripture Reflections
A Reflection for Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Rioting was sparked by a knife attack at a dance studio in Southport on July 29. Three children were killed and other children and adults injured and seriously wounded.