Voices

Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
Politics & SocietyDispatches
“The shooting of Father Graham has shocked and distressed many people, including students. He, along with the Society of Jesus, remain hopeful that a solution can be achieved.”
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Police apparently fired a rubber bullet point blank into the face of a Jesuit priest near the Witwatersrand campus in Johannesburg.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Matthew ruins crops, destroys water treatment plants and leaves a climbing death toll in an already-poor nation.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
The setback does not bode well for near-term progress on U.S.-Russia disarmament.
Dispatches
In regions where the fighting and suffering has been the most intense, voters said “yes” to the accord by overwhelming margins.
Signs Of the Times
U.S. and Iraqi military strategists are preparing for a final drive on Mosul, hoping to dislodge Islamic State militants from their last stronghold in Iraq. But how well are they planning for the inevitable impact of that offensive on the city’s residents?Hani El-Mahdi is the Iraq country repr
Dispatches
The fall of Mosul could mean anywhere between 1 to 1.5 million more displaced people, a figure one aid worker bluntly calls “overwhelming.”
Signs Of the Times
The borough’s Bangladeshi community remained tense more than a week after two men were gunned down a few blocks from a humble storefront mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens on Aug. 13. Jewel Chowdhury, the general secretary of the Jalalabad Association of America, says the Muslim c
Dispatches
“If a person comes from behind and he shoots someone dead and he does not ask for watches, he does not ask for money, what is it? If it is not a hate crime, what would it be?”
FaithIn All Things
Catholic hospitals are accused of sub-par care of women. CHA’s Sister Carol Keehan says it ain’t so.
“Pregnancies with problems don’t need to be referred for abortion, they need to be taken care of at the hospitals, and at Catholic hospitals they are taken care of.”