As civil strife threatens greater disorder, a famine looms in South Sudan; Pope Francis urges intervention.
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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Jesuits call Dakota pipeline work ‘morally unacceptable’
The Jesuits invite people of good will and members of Congress to call on the administration to reverse its decision the Dakota access pipeline.
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Undocumented in America: The fear is real. Is the problem exaggerated?
Despite simplistic language that depicts a flood of undocumented migrants crossing the U.S. southern border, migration from Mexico has slowed considerably in recent years and even reversed.
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The manhunt for a martyr’s killers
‘The Assassination of a Saint’ begins like a crime thriller, complete with a criminal manhunt.
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A Watergate veteran on a Nixonian moment for President Trump
Philip A. Lacovara noticed some similarities to his epic experience more than 43 years ago during Watergate’s infamous Saturday Night Massacre
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Activists resist Trump plan to restart Keystone XL and Dakota pipelines
“Allowing the plunder and destruction of God’s wondrous creation to support the greed of a few is morally, spiritually and ethically wrong.”
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House votes to make pro-life Hyde Amendment permanent
The proposed law will end the “annual battle” over Hyde and related measures and “takes out of Obamacare the facilitation and funding of abortion.”
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Catholic Relief Services responds to refugee crisis in Irbil
Sean Callahan describes the humanitarian relief mission of CRS with Iraqi Christian and Yazidi refugees in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
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The Road from Bossangoa
As the rainy season reaches its end, a race to get seed and tools into the hands of hard-hit subsistence farmers in the Central African Republic begins. In the capital Bangui, mortal conflict is a grim daily reality.
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Second Chances in Detroit
Paul Gibson talks about the help he received from the Capuchins and their "On the Rise Bakery" in Detroit.