An interview on economics and Catholic social teaching with Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist and a professor at Columbia University.
Kevin Clarke
Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
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How do contemporary believers treat Jesus?
A Reflection for Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Kevin Clarke
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Catholic Relief Services responds to Myanmar earthquake disaster
“Hospitals are overwhelmed, and people are sleeping out on the streets, anywhere they can, in fields and playgrounds and religious compounds.”
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Catholic Relief Services carries on after Elon Musk’s takedown of USAID
Musk’s federal takeover produced significant collateral damage. Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. church’s global humanitarian relief and development agency, had been U.S.A.I.D.’s biggest faith-based international partner.
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How Trump’s deportations are testing the boundaries of presidential authority
“Trump [is] flexing his power and trying to push the law into areas that have not been tested before…and the challenge really is not to the people affected but to the rule of law itself.”
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Worst violence in years in Syria revives fears among minority Alawite and Christian communities
The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] live in an Islamist country and not be [Sunni] Muslim?”
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No waivers for Catholic relief efforts: The devastating impacts of the end of U.S.A.I.D.
Around the world, health, nutrition, civil society and peace-building programs are unraveling, staff are being dismissed and the lights are being turned off.
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After Trump and Zelensky’s disastrous White House meeting, European bishops express solidarity with Ukraine
The European bishops were careful to note that their expression of solidarity was extended to Ukrainians “who have been suffering from Russia’s unjustifiable full-scale invasion for more than three years.”
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Finding our way to salvation
A Reflection for Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
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Archbishop Wenski says deporting Haitians would be ‘unconscionable’ as TPS deadline looms
“Basically Haiti is a house on fire, and you can’t push people back into a burning house,” Archbishop Wenski said. “We have to deal with the fire and create conditions for people to go back home.”