I am almost too tired of the whole issue to write any more words about it My entire career in journalism I have periodically been forced to compose some outraged paragraphs about the latest massacre or ldquo normal rdquo gun violence in Chicago Baltimore Milwaukee Camden you name it how m
Kevin Clarke
Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
Posted inIn All Things
Diocese of Bridgeport Issues Statement on Newtown Shooting
Statement of Msgr Jerald A Doyle Administrator Diocese of BridgeportNewtown School ShootingsOn behalf of the Diocese of Bridgeport we offer our prayers and our collective sense of grief shock and loss after the tragic school shootings in Newtown Msgr Robert Weiss Pastor of St Rose of Lima P
Posted inIn All Things
Kicking Around Grand Ideas in Solino
It had once been a soccer field can it become one again Port-au-Prince already was bereft of areas where children might go to kick a soccer ball play basketball or otherwise run around freely a little After the earthquake pretty much any open space was quickly converted into emergency tent citie
Posted inIn All Things
Avec Mis Nouveau Amis, Monsieur Antoine
ldquo It was terrible just terrible rdquo says Delille Antione He rsquo s speaking about his experience during the earthquake on January 10 2010 in Port-au-Prince ldquo I really don rsquo t want to talk about it I don 39 t want to think about it again rdquo And unlike a lot of people ove
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
The silent boy of Carradeux
Today on a hillside overlooking Port-au-Prince I met the boy who has no name Scratch that I rsquo m sure he has a name I just was unable to find it out He began following me soon after I arrived at a camp in the city rsquo s village of Carradeux a place where hundreds of families have lived si
Posted inIn All Things
In Port-au-Prince, edging closer to normal
In Port-au-Prince at St Pierre parish one of the few Catholic churches that didn rsquo t collapse in the January 2010 earthquake which devastated this city of 3 7 million people everyone is dressed as smartly as they can at Sunday Mass in the evening the way people in New York did when I was a k
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Bibi and Barack: Can This Relationship Be Saved?
The Israeli prime minister was among the first to call the president after his victory.
Posted inIn All Things
Reasons for thanks giving from CRS
Bad news about poverty disease and disaster abounds Today in the spirit of Thanksgiving Catholic Relief Services offers another perspective Good News mdash For a Change highlights major strides in the fight against global poverty that are making a real difference in people rsquo s lives This f
Posted inCatholic Book Club
November Selection
Life will break your heart So will Jonathan Kozol rsquo s Fire in the Ashes It is full of life mdash messy disorganized broken and tragic and yes sometimes still full of joy and mercy and grace at unexpected moments This latest account of the lives of the other Americans who peopled K
Posted inIn All Things
Revolt of the Bishops? Statement on the Economy Voted Down
Given the state of the economy and the mood of the nation a letter of hope during economic dark times seemed like a good idea when the U S bishops voted by a wide margin to nbsp draft a message on work and the economy during their June meeting in Atlanta nbsp But after the draft of that resulting