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President Donald Trump speaks to the media on June 27 regarding the announcement that Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will retire at the end of July. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Another Supreme Court nominee by President Trump could tilt the balance against the 1973 Roe v. Wade court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
 Pope Francis places a red biretta on new Cardinal Pedro Barreto of Huancayo, Peru, during a consistory to create 14 new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 28. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis used strong words that can be read both as an admonition and guidance for the entire college of cardinals.
Bryan Rivera sifts through the remains of his house, after his family went missing during the Volcan de Fuego or "Volcano of Fire" eruption, in San Miguel Los Lotes, Guatemala, on June 7. (AP Photo/Moisés Castillo)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jackie McVicar
The Fuego volcano eruption destroyed properties recently sold to indigenous Guatemalans for subsistence farming.
Personal property such as these figurines of Our Lady of Guadalupe are considered "non-essential" and confiscated from detained migrants. (Courtesy of Tom Kiefer)
Arts & CultureDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Photographer Tom Kiefer took a job at U.S. Customs and was horrified to discover personal items in the trash. He decided to show them to the world.
Demonstrators in Managua, Nicaragua, stand behind a barricade during clashes with police May 30. (CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters) 
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Nicaragua’s political crisis is in its second month, and President Daniel Ortega’s soft authoritarianism has turned into violent repression.
A migrant women from Iraq feeds her grandson in front of the railway station in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 19, 2018. Some hundreds of migrants have been camping at the railway station in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo waiting for an opportunity to get to Croatia and Western Europe. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
A record 68.5 million people had been driven from their homes across the world at the end of 2017. That total was 2.9 million more than at the end of 2016.