The United States is thwarting the advancement of millions of its citizens, a UN rapporteur says.
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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Father James Martin explains what can get lost in translating Scripture
Making ancient Scripture sensible in contemporary languages will always prove a hazard-heavy challenge.
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After pope’s Myanmar visit, Catholic Relief Services continues its humanitarian aid to Rohingya
While diplomats and advocates weigh in on the crisis, Catholic Relief Services in Bangladesh, supporting the local Caritas office, is responding with humanitarian assistance, delivering food and critical survival supplies to thousands of Rohingya families.
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C.R.S. responds to Rohingya crisis
Caroline Brennan, the emergency communications director for C.R.S., describes conditions among impromptu refugee camps of Rohingya Muslim families in Bangladesh.
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U.S. bishops urge Trump to reconsider withdrawal from U.N. migration compact
The United States has removed itself from another international dialogue aimed at tackling a complex international challenge—migration.
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These Iraqi Christians returned home after surviving ISIS. Now they face a new threat.
After surviving ISIS, Christian communities in Nineveh face a new threat as Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi government troops backed by Shiite militias square off across the province.
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U.S. bishops: ‘Net neutrality protections are critical to the faith community to function’
Bishop Coyne urged the retention of the current open internet policies in the wake of a FCC draft proposal that would repeal those protections.
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New York switches to a ‘pilot program’ during annual C.C.H.D. collection. Did parishioners notice?
The change was in “no way” a response to the C.C.H.D.’s persistent online critics, an archdiocesan official says.
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Catholic eco-activists frustrated that U.S. left behind as climate change efforts negotiated in Bonn
“What we need to do is just continue to live out the challenge of ‘Laudato Si’,’ which is to examine our relationship with the earth, with God and with each other to see how we can become better stewards of this gift of the earth.”
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World leaders are meeting at the Vatican to discuss nuclear weapons. Here’s why.
A Vatican conference represents the beginning of a coordination of Catholic universities, institutions and bishops’s conferences on this issue.