Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill.
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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Meet the Catholic middle school students rowing toward a brighter future
At San Miguel Academy, teamwork begins on the water.
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After the government shutdown ends, will the U.S. be heading back to the future on health care?
Sister Mary Haddad, head of the Catholic Health Association, on the precarious state of U.S. health care—before and after the shutdown
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At Red Mass, Cardinal McElroy presses Supreme Court to restore hope
Practitioners of law have an opportunity to restore that lost trust and hope, Cardinal McElroy said. “No group in our society has a greater capacity to remold our political discourse. No group has a deeper calling to bring hope.”
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Trump vs. the Vatican at the UN general assembly
Despite the growing American threats to withdraw, Vatican officials still perceive the United Nations as a fundamental instrument of world peace and justice seeking.
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Guardian angels and our responsibility to our children
A Reflection for the Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels, by Kevin Clarke
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As deportation terror mounts, Cardinal McElroy asks U.S. Catholics, ‘Who is your neighbor?’
Cardinal McElroy charged that the nation has been experiencing “a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women” and to make life unbearable for undocumented immigrants.
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Global Catholic charity head brings the plight of the poor to the U.N.
Despite the year’s setbacks and geopolitical turmoil, there is still hope that the world community can address persisting challenges of poverty, armed conflict and climate change.
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Pope Leo, Elon Musk and the impact of extreme wealth
Pope Leo XIV got into a wee spat with the $434 billion man, Elon Musk, this week, to the extent that Mr. Musk was forced to resort to Scripture.
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Catholic immigrant advocates caught ‘flat-footed’ by Trump chart a path forward
On immigration enforcement: “If there is any institution in this country that can stop what is happening, it is the Catholic Church.”