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Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
Arts & CultureBooks
Kevin Clarke
Bob Woodward offers a grim portrait of a presidential administration that seems increasingly unhinged.
Victor-Luke Odhiambo, S.J.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kevin Clarke
The Eastern Africa Province of the Jesuits confirmed the death of Victor-Luke Odhiambo, S.J., “with deep sadness and shock” in an announcement published on its Facebook account.
FaithDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“This hypothesis—that the reality of personal sexual misconduct by bishops...was a factor which inclined some bishops not to vigorously pursue allegations of abuse among their clergy—I believe that this is a valid hypothesis.”
Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States struggle at a border checkpoint on Oct. 19 in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. (CNS photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“As Catholic agencies assisting poor and vulnerable migrants in the United States and around the world, we are deeply saddened by the violence, injustice, and deteriorating economic conditions forcing many people to flee their homes in Central America.”
Signs of normal live are slowly returning to the ruins of Mosul. (Kevin Clarke)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Sunni Muslims who have returned to the gray dusty ruin of West Mosul, Iraq, to start over, but most Christians are convinced that is impossible to ever return to live here.
A Yazidi family in a temporary shelter in Iraq. (Kevin Clarke)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Few Yazidi families have been able to escape from temporary shelters in Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan. Their home villages have not been swept for mines and booby traps left behind when ISIS was dislodged.
Students attend a new kindergarten in Qaraqosh, Iraq. (Kevin Clarke)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Qaraqosh’s wary residents who fled ISIS have returned to a city in near ruin, but there are signs of renewed life, including a kindergarten sponsored by the Jesuit Refugee Service.
Palestinian refugee students stand outside a classroom in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sept. 3. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
The United States is gutting the funding for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, creating an instant humanitarian crisis for a region already overloaded with them.
“Mother Mary” gazes serenely down on the traffic fuming and stalling around her in Ankawa, a suburb of Erbil. (Kevin Clarke)
FaithDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Christians in northern Iraq try to rebuild their lives after the defeat of ISIS, but the terror of being driven from their homes is not easily forgotten.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York uses a censer while celebrating a St. Patrick's Day Mass March 17, 2017 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithNews
Kevin Clarke
The subpoenas seek documents relating to sexual abuse allegations, financial payments to possible victims or the findings from internal church investigations, according to The Associated Press.