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June 3-10, 2013
Big and Little Wars
A Congolese battalion trained by the U.S. military committed mass rapes and other atrocities last year, according to a newly released United Nations report. Soldiers from the unit joined with other Congolese soldiers to rape 97 women and 33 girls in eastern Congo. This represents a setback for the U.S. military’s little-known efforts to train troops in third-world countries.
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May 27, 2013
The Collapse at Rana Plaza
The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh was still being counted (it would eventually exceed 1,000) when the Walt Disney Company publicized a previously made decision no longer to source “branded merchandise” from Bangladesh and other “highest-risk countries”: Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan.
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May 20, 2013
Shocking Assaults in India
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May 13, 2013
Copts Under Seige
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May 6, 2013
The Torture Report
More than four years after President Obama promised to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the escalating desperation of its remaining 166 inmates, especially the 85 cleared for release or transfer, has shot back into public consciousness. A hunger strike that began on Feb. 6 has grown to include a hundred prisoners (*as of April 27). Twenty prisoners are being force-fed twice each day, and six are hospitalized...
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April 29, 2013
Voice of Conscience
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April 22, 2013
St. Oscar Romero?
In the first few weeks of his papacy Pope Francis surprised the world with a series of bold choices. With these changes, hopes remain high that Francis’ papacy will be one of renewal, reform and refreshment.
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April 8-15, 2013
Talk About Steubenville
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March 25, 2013
Rx: Real Reform
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March 18, 2013
A Listening Church
The Holy Spirit works not only in the cardinal electors as they select a new pope, but in the hopes and desires of all the people of God. The church is called to be attentive to the Spirit alive in both groups: the hierarchy and the laity. It is called to be both ecclesia docens (a teaching church) and ecclesia discens (a learning church). What groups, then,...