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Values and Voting

May 23-30, 2016

Vol. 214 / No. 18

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Homes line a dirt road in 2014 on the Rosebud Reservation in south central South Dakota. Poverty and addiction are major contributing factors to the high suicide rate on the Lakota reservation. (CNS photo/Ron Wu, Catholic Extension)
Current Comment
The EditorsMay 12, 2016

Indigenous communities in parts of North America are suffering.

Current Comment
The EditorsMay 12, 2016

It is exceedingly unlikely that only 0.03 percent of government surveillance requests are unjustified.

Current Comment
The EditorsMay 12, 2016

On April 8, the world witnessed a great leap forward for human spaceflight.

Faith Generation Faith
Marina ElgawlyMay 12, 2016

I watched as Egyptian state forces ran over peaceful Coptic protestors with military vehicles.

Of Other Things
Kerry WeberMay 06, 2016

Likening maternity leave to a sabbatical understandably rubbed many the wrong way.

Signs Of the Times

Pope Francis, accepting a prize for promoting European unity, on May 6 bemoaned that the continent’s people “are tempted to yield to our own selfish interests and to consider putting up fences.”“I dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime but a summons to a

Signs Of the Times

Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry told hundreds of mourners at the funeral of Sister Clare Crockett, killed in Ecuador during an earthquake on April 17, that “a life given in loving sacrifice is never wasted.” • Twenty-three new Swiss Guard recruits pledged during a ceremony on May 6 to