Father Matt Malone, S.J., editor in chief of America, interviews Vice President Joseph R. Biden.
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Joe Biden to announce 2020 bid on Thursday
Answering perhaps the most significant question of the early 2020 election season, former Vice President Joe Biden will launch his presidential campaign on Thursday.
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Sri Lanka president asks for resignations of top security officials
Sri Lanka’s president has asked for the resignations of the defense secretary and national police chief, a dramatic internal shake-up after security forces shrugged off intelligence reports warning of possible attacks before Easter bombings that killed over 350 people, the president’s office said Wednesday.
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Boy Scouts could be hit with more sex abuse claims
An esteemed American institution, the Boy Scouts, is now another entity rocked by charges of child sexual abuse. Serving more than 2.2 million youths, the Boy Scouts will likely be facing untold lawsuits and legal action.
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Sri Lankan cardinal demands answers about security lapses after Easter bombings
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe claimed he and other top government officials were not told about a possible threat and told local media “we must look into why adequate precautions were not taken.”
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What does ‘abortion’ mean? Some states have very different answers
Medical “advances” have made the simple act of human reproduction bafflingly complex, and inconsistent vocabulary adds to the difficulty of debating pro-life issues. Here is a guide to essential terms.
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U.S.C.C.B. president decries terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops termed as “a great evil” the Easter terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka targeting the country’s minority Christian community as worshippers packed three churches.
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Explosions kill at least 207 in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday
Since the end of the nation’s 26-year civil war, in which the Tamil Tigers, a rebel group from the ethnic Tamil minority, sought independence from ethnic Sinhala Buddhist majority Sri Lanka, the country has seen sporadic ethnic and religious violence, but the scale of Sunday’s bloodshed recalled the worst days of the war,
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A contrarian focused on the larger questions: remembering Father James Schall, S.J.
Father Schall was often described as a contrarian, but he had his mind set on the “essential and ultimate” questions.
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As Easter Sunday approaches, Parisians ponder the meaning of the Notre-Dame fire
The air was still thick with smoke and the ash burnt the eyes of the onlookers, who were relieved to see the cathedral still standing. For many Catholics, the coincidence of the blaze occurring at the start of Holy Week speaks of the greater mysteries of Easter.