You have probably read with dismay and disgust as I have the story of the bodies of 800 babies cast into a septic tank in Tuam County Galway children who passed away while under the care of the Bon Secours sisters at a ldquo Mother and Baby rdquo home Between 1925 and 1961 the home sheltered
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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Pope Francis Moves to ‘Internationalize’ Vatican Finances: Progress on professionalization and oversight in Rome continue
Efforts to professionalize Vatican financial services and oversight of same continued today as Pope Francis dismissed the all-Italian five-member board that oversees the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency, an abrupt move that will give the financial operation more of an English-speaking focus
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Jesuit Abducted in Afghanistan
The Jesuit Refugee Service in Rome confirms that on Monday afternoon its country director Alexis Prem Kumar S J was abducted by a group of unidentified men in western Afghanistan We are deeply shocked by Prem s abduction We are in contact with all the relevant authorities and doing everyth
Posted inIn All Things
Nicea Council Credible?
This is from our file on quot news that is generating a lot of speculation but we don 39 t know what to make of it mdash yet quot nbsp In an interview with AsiaNews nbsp the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople nbsp Bartholomew I nbsp nonchalantly noted nbsp that we meaning himself and Pope
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Washington Climate Changers?
U.S. Bishops Urge Action On Carbon Pollution To Stem Climate Change
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Disorder Continues in Central African Republic
The news out of the Central African Republic in recent days has been just awful Yesterday widespread disorder nbsp broke out in the capital Bangui barricades were thrown up around Chrisitan and Muslim quarters and two protestors were killed by African Union peacekeepers The demonstrations began i
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Obama Suggests New Direction in West Point Address
Defends “soft power” alternatives and multilateral approach to conflict resolution
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‘Allowed to Hope’?: Stark choices confront the Central African Republic
Green doors and green porch trim mark the small shops that are—or were—owned by Muslims in the Point Kilometer 5 quarter of Bangui, the capital city of the Central African Republic. Many of them are open this morning in early May—more as you cruise closer to the city’s centra
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Pope and Patriarch in Joint Declaration After Historic Meeting
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis celebrated and extended the outreach of their predecessors Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras yesterday Meeting at the Apostolic Delegation in the Old City of Jerusalem the contemporary heads of the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic ch
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Pity the Poor Travel Agent as Francis Begins Holy Land Whirlwind
Does travel insurance cover diplomatic faux pas Let rsquo s hope the Vatican has invested in the deluxe package for Pope Francis He begins tomorrow a whirlwind visit to the Holy Land that he insists is NOT political but personal and religious so naturally his every gesture will be mdash has alrea