Last month, Jason Stockley, the white police officer who killed Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old black man, was acquitted. How did the city of St. Louis respond?
Politics & Society
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40 Catholic institutions plan to divest from fossil fuels
Divestment from fossil fuels is one way to “look at how one applies the teachings” of “Laudato Si’.”
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Diocese warns students: Don’t kneel during national anthem
A Roman Catholic diocese that students and spectators cannot kneel or otherwise protest when the national anthem is played.
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Independence vote in Catalonia tests Spain’s surprisingly fragile democracy
Spanish police tried to shut down polling places and fired rubber bullets to prevent Catalans from voting in the Oct. 1 referendum for independence.
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Pope Francis: Politicians must help people overcome fear of migrants
Pope Francis urged them to oppose “one-way streets of exasperated individualism” and “the dead ends of corruption.”
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Here’s what we are supposed to believe about immigration as Catholics
Catholic social teaching does not allow us to consider immigration in the abstract; we must recognize that human beings migrate for legitimate reasons.
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How one Jesuit grad is building Tiny Homes to end chronic homelessness
Tiny homes—you’ve probably heard of them. They’re littered all over Instagram and Pinterest, and HGTV has dedicated a show to hunting them. But what you probably haven’t heard about is how they could be a solution to end chronic homelessness. This week we talk to Andrew Lunetta, a graduate of LeMoyne University, who is the […]
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How one Jesuit grad is building Tiny Homes to end chronic homelessness
Tiny homes—you’ve probably heard of them. But you probably haven’t heard how they could solve chronic homelessness.
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Vatican diplomat also wanted in Canada on child porn charges
An arrest warrant has been issued in Canada for Msgr. Carlo Capella, the Vatican diplomat recalled from service in Washington in late August, who already was the subject of a Vatican criminal investigation involving child pornography.
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Christians should return to Iraq as full citizens after being driven out by ISIS, cardinal says
About 100,000 Christians — among them more than 60,000 Syriac Catholics — were expelled from the Ninevah Plain by the Islamic State group in the summer of 2014 as the militants campaigned to expand their reach into Iraq.