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Demonstrators are seen near the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind., to show their opposition to the death penalty July 13, 2020. (CNS photo/Bryan Woolston, Reuters)
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From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
Helen Prejean: “While we were all sleeping, the government killed a man under cloak of darkness.”
Graduating seniors line up to receive their diplomas after exiting their vehicles during a drive-in commencement on June 14, 2020, at St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in West Islip, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
As the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise in most states, school administrators are struggling to decide if classes can be held in person, if remote learning is here to stay for a while or if a hybrid of the two is needed.
Politics & SocietyFaith and Reason
Bill McCormick, S.J.
Today all white Christians need to fix our gaze on the suffering Christ in the wounds of our Black brothers and sisters.
New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan leads a July 11, 2020, prayer service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City during which he blessed the cremated remains of 250 Mexicans who had died from COVID-19. The majority of the deceased had been employed as front-line workers in the New York area. The Mexican consulate in New York helped plan the liturgy and arranged for the ashes to be transported by plane to Mexico following the service. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) 
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Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
In a moving ceremony at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cardinal Timothy Dolan blessed the cremated remains of Mexican nationals who had worked in city hospitals at the height of the pandemic and subsequently died from the virus before they were flown back to Mexico for burial.
Politics & SocietyNews
Maurice Beaulieu, Catholic News Service
A 24-year-old Florida man who hadn't taken his schizophrenia medication set fire to a church in Orlando was later caught and charged with among other things, attempted second-degree murder.
Politics & SocietyGoodNews
John Shaughnessy - Catholic News Service
A priest's selfless act of donating a kidney has allowed a mother to lead a normal family life.
Politics & SocietyNews
Juan Carlos Ramirez, Catholic News Service
At a July 8 webinar sponsored by Georgetown University, participants have pointed out that the problem of world hunger is exacerbated by the pandemic and that addressing it should be a top priority.
Politics & SocietyNews
Pablo Kay - Catholic News Service
Los Angeles' oldest Catholic site, the San Gabrielino Mission, was the target of vandalism as was other Catholic churches throughout the country in recent days.
Politics & SocietyNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Members of an Italian online Facebook group, “We Will Denounce” have demanded that prosecutors in Bergamo investigate whether any crimes contributed to the death toll.
Politics & SocietyNews
Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
Black Catholics believe that the time is now for the church to have a long-overdue reassessment over its role with racism and racial injustice.
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Vanessa Gera - Associated Press
His campaign focused on defending traditional family values in the predominantly Catholic nation of 38 million people, and on preserving social spending policies.
Politics & SocietyNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
The pandemic has had untold effects upon the spiritual and sacramental life of the church.
Protesters burn U.S. flags during a protest in front of Trump Tower, Saturday, July 4, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
Politics & SocietyExplainer
Ellen K. Boegel
Branding “antifa” (short for “antifascist”) or any domestic association as a terror group is problematic, primarily because the United States “does not officially designate domestic terrorist organizations.”
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The court is functioning less as a judicial body than as a relief valve for legislative dysfunction and executive overreach.
A young woman is pictured in a file photo near her hostel in Yangon, Myanmar. (CNS photo/Myat Thu Kyaw, Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The appeal was signed by the more than 40 of the foremost religious figures of this majority-Buddhist state, including Cardinal Charles Maung Bo.
FaithFaith in Focus
Brendan Gottschall, S.J.
With some guidance from St. Ignatius of Loyola.
People visit Hagia Sophia in Istanbul June 30, 2020. (CNS photo/Murad Sezer, Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis' brief words at the Sunday Angelus are the Vatican's first public response to the Turkish president's move to turn Hagia Sophia back into a mosque.
Catholic Charities staff and volunteers in the Archdiocese of Washington distribute 500 grocery boxes and 500 family meals in the parking lot of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception July 10, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
Politics & SocietyNews
Kevin Clarke
U.S. bishops: “The Paycheck Protection Program was designed to protect the jobs of Americans from all walks of life, regardless of whether they work for for-profit or non-profit employers, faith-based or secular.”
FaithFaith in Focus
André M. Peñalver
From Meatless Mondays to Black Lives Matter, old Christian truths take hold in a world that seems to have left religion behind.
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Unesco World Heritage site in Istanbul, founded as a Christian church in the 6th century, transformed into a mosque in the 15th century and then into a museum in 1934, will reopen as a mosque on July 24 with Friday prayers.