Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?
Kevin Clarke
Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Archbishop calls for canonizations and transfiguration in El Salvador
Sadly, the church of El Salvador can offer any number of priests, men and women religious and lay people to choose from to hold up as modern exemplars of Christian self-sacrifice.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
What is the Kingdom of Heaven? And how do we seek it?
A Reflection for Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
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‘Push the people back into the water.’ Texas bishops condemn inhumane border policies after leaked email
In an email exchange between a Texas state trooper and his supervisor, the trooper reported receiving orders in encounters with migrating people that he called “inhumane.”
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
The head of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church has been pushed out of Baghdad. What’s next for Christians there?
What obligation does the United States still owe these Christians and other Iraqi religious minorities? What is it willing to do to assist and protect them?
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
You can’t go wrong if you lead with mercy
A Reflection for Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
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Will Europe change course on migration after 600 drown on the Mediterranean?
A policy of deterrence through intentional neglect has not had an impact on migration, but it has resulted in far more losses among migrants and refugees.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The Titan submersible disaster, migrant crises and what gets global media’s attention
How the international media covers the migration tragedy unfolding in the Atlantic in comparison to coverage of the Titan tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea seems a valid question to probe.
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A boat carrying 750 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean. The tragedy reflects a worldwide refugee crisis.
At the end of 2022, according to the United Nations, more than 108 million people worldwide “were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order.” The figure represents an increase of almost 20 million people over 2021.
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One year after 2 Jesuits were murdered in Mexico, there is still no justice
Despite the heightened presence of Mexican military in the aftermath of the Jesuit murders, “violence is still very present” in the region, Father Javier Ávila said.