New Yorkers can be forgiven if they believed homelessness were a problem consigned to the past.
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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VIDEO: New top Jesuit talks Pope Francis, future of the order and more
“Pope Francis—and myself, we’re sons of a church and a living church.”
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Jesuit college and university presidents make a pre-emptive defense of DACA ‘dreamers’
The Jesuit presidents wrote they are called “to embrace the entire human family, regardless of their immigration status or religious allegiance.”
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Ohio State attacker was briefly a Catholic Charities client in Dallas
Authorities today were still trying to ascertain a motive for the attack.
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Fight for $15 plans labor actions in 340 cities on Nov. 29
The campaign is demanding better pay, beginning with a hike of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. It is currently a paltry $7.25 and has not budged in seven years.
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Pope Francis, Miami Archbishop, US pols reacts to Castro’s passing
“At the same time, I offer prayers to the Lord for his rest and I entrust the whole Cuban people to the maternal intercession of our Lady of the Charity of El Cobre.”
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As Mass Extinction Threatens, Are Catholics Listening to ‘Laudato Si’’?
Researchers say deforestation, pollution, overfishing and the illegal wildlife trade, together with climate change, “are pushing species populations to the edge.”
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Today’s Forecast, Cloudy with a Chance of Parousia
An apparent overnight rapture has claimed most residents of the neighborhoods surrounding Wrigley Field.
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Another great extinction and is anyone listening to ‘Laudato Si’’?
Deforestation, pollution, overfishing and the illegal wildlife trade, together with climate change, “are pushing species populations to the edge.”
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Activists seek immediate halt to Algonquin pipeline near NY’s Indian Point nuclear plant
Activists are demanding that the New York Senator take a stand against the Algonquin natural gas pipeline.