The march and its counter-protest showed the sharp divide in how blacks and whites view the police in a city with few integrated neighborhoods.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson and Father Pfleger lead a protest to end to Chicago’s violence on New Year’s Eve
Each of the participants carried wooden crosses bearing the names of victims.
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Putin, Trump, Pope Francis and the future of nukes
Are Trump and Putin about to begin a new nuclear arms race?
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U.S. Bishops urge legislation to protect ‘Dreamers’ from deportation
Bishop Vásquez points out that there are more than 740,000 young people who have received and benefitted from DACA.
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New York’s Cardinal Dolan will pray at Trump’s inauguration
Cardinal Dolan said he looks forward “to asking Almighty God to inspire and guide our new President and to continue to bless our great Nation.”
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Learning from Carrie Fisher and the rest of the secular saints we lost in 2016
These people’s lives gave us a glimpse of something meaningful, something that liberated or encouraged us.
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Pope Francis and Donald Trump dominate our most read stories of 2016
Besides politics, readers were interested in stories about liturgy, racism, interfaith issues and gender.
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In Christmas message, Pope Francis calls for peace
He prayed for people across the globe, and especially for the people of Aleppo.
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One day after Christmas, Pope Francis focuses on contemporary Christian martyrs
“There are more martyrs in the world today than in the early centuries of Christianity,” Francis told thousands of pilgrims.
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Pope Francis surprises Vatican officials with frank talk of Roman Curia reform
The pope zoned in forcefully on a central aspect of the life of the Roman Curia, the papal civil service.