Voices
Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
FaithFeatures
It is likely that “you don’t see them because they don’t come.”
Signs Of the Times
Tighter Western security measures and immigration controls are two likely outcomes of a truck attack in France on July 14, but a closer appraisal of “crisis architecture” may be another response to the unprecedented attack.“I think that, sadly, we’re at a place where—no
Signs Of the Times
The deaths of two African-American men last month at the hands of police in Baton Rouge, La., and Falcon Heights, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul, provoked soul-searching and demonstrations against police brutality and institutional racism around the country. In a jolt to the entire nation, the killings
Dispatches
“These types of attacks are not going away,” said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Politics & SocietyNews
Father Bryan Massingale says that our national inability to confront the social outcomes of racism is a “spiritual cataract.”
FaithSigns Of the Times
The pope’s call for Christians to offer an apology to gay and lesbian people, issued during his flight back to Rome from Armenia on June 26, was carefully welcomed by Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego. “I think it opens up a very helpful pathway to dialogue and, hopefully, healing,&rdqu
Vantage Point
A look at America's coverage on gun violence, from the 1960s to present day.
Dispatches
Lebanon—a multi-faith nation of just four million people—continues to shoulder the burden of more than two million refugees within its borders.
Dispatches
The pope’s call for Christians to offer an apology to gay and lesbian people was also carefully welcomed this week by Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego.
Politics & Society
It has been one of the terrible paradoxes of the modern global refugee crisis: Often those countries least capable of responding to the complex needs of refugees are the ones forced to shoulder the greatest burden in caring for them. Money may come in from more affluent donor states to assist in the