“We should never get used to violence or lose our respect for the sacredness of human life,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, following a deadly mass shooting that claimed four lives, including that of a New York City police officer.
Politics & Society
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Jesuit human rights center warn of growing state surveillance in Mexico
Fears of state espionage are surfacing again for Centro Prodh and other human rights groups in Mexico after legislators overhauled a suite of laws in security, military, telecommunications and intelligence matters.
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Faith leaders hope bill will stop the loss of thousands of foreign-born clergy serving US communities
“Unless there is a change to current practice, our community is slowly being strangled,” said the Rev. Aaron Wessman, vicar general and director of formation for the Glenmary Home Missioners, a small Catholic order ministering in rural America.
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Archbishop Gomez and LA business leaders start fund to help families affected by ICE raids
Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez was one of several community leaders who joined to open the Family Assistance Program, aiding those affected by recent ICE raids.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Non-fiction can wait. It’s time to enrich your life with a novel.
Many of my acquaintances have given up “reading about something that didn’t happen.” But fiction has long-term and concrete value, both mentally and socially.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
‘Lives hanging by a thread’: Looking at hunger and starvation in Gaza
Observers around the world have grown weary of the images of starving children and desperate people gunned down while trying to collect bags of flour or boxes of food.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The era of essays and exams is ending. It’s time to educate for mystical intelligence.
After four decades in education, both secular and Catholic, I have witnessed teaching models come and go. The moment before us, however, is not a passing phase; it is a threshold.
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Ireland’s abortion rates reach record high; Catholic advocates call it ‘a tragedy’
The Irish government “has done nothing to reduce the numbers of abortions…and seems not to care why women choose abortion, or what happens to them afterwards,” Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin and Achonry said.
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100 years after the Scopes Monkey Trial: religion, science and the era of eugenic racism
The Scopes trial has long been depicted as a clash between modern science and religious fundamentalism. But it was also a chapter in the eugenic racism that had become a creed of social elites in the early 20th century.
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How Trump’s cuts to NPR funding will hurt WFUV—Fordham University’s storied public radio station
Working at WFUV’s student-run newsroom has been formative for both of us, which has made these recent cuts from Congress especially painful.