Politics & Society

RESIDENTS FLEE SYRIAN VILLAGE
The Editors: War in Syria is not the answer
By The Editors
Peace in Syria is impossible without U.S. military intervention
By Antonio De Loera-Brust
When can a doctor conscientiously object?
By Bernard G. Prusak
Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right
By Melissa Vida
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U.S. News
Why should Catholics care about Trump’s tariff war? American farmers.
By Nathan Beacom
Life without parole is no moral alternative to the death penalty
By Katie Rose Quandt
Miscarriages are happening in I.C.E. custody. Will the pro-life movement respond?
By The Editors
Washington needs to abandon the wall and focus on Dreamers
By Gerald F. Kicanas
Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded youth who was shot by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel on April 13. Palestinians streamed to tent camps on Gaza's border with Israel for a third mass protest. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
It’s bodies against bullets at the Gaza border
Hamas, it seems, has taken Israeli contempt for Palestinian life as a cultural and political weakness that Gazans can turn against the oppressor state.
Drew Christiansen, S.J.April 13, 2018
World News

Pope Francis is “deeply disturbed” by international failure to reach peace in Syria

The pope’s first comments on Syria since the missile attacks
By Gerard O’Connell

The church in Mexico urges Catholics to vote but endorses no candidates

As consequential as the next Mexican election may be, the Catholic Church in Mexico has largely remained on the sidelines so far.
By Jan-Albert Hootsen

A look at life on the U.S.-Mexico border

America This Week
April 11, 2018
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A look at life on the U.S.-Mexico border
America This Week
April 11, 2018
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Sarah Silverman on whether hell exists and why she loves the Jesuits
April 06, 2018
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How can we minister to families in the aftermath of suicide?
America This Week
March 14, 2018
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The making of a Papal Ninja Warrior
March 22, 2018
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Immigration
What’s new for asylum seekers under the Trump administration
“They are also separating families, mothers from their children, at the border. That sends a definite signal, ‘Don’t come.’”
J.D. Long-GarcíaApril 6, 2018
Photographer David Taylor talks about his work on the U.S.-Mexico border in studio in Tucson, Ariz. (J.D. Long-García)
Photographer exposes the oversimplified U.S.-Mexico border
In his photography, David Taylor shies away from stereotypes.
J.D. Long-GarcíaApril 6, 2018
Instead of building walls, the U.S. should revisit good neighborism.
The Americas are one landmass. The fates of its states and its people are inseparable.
The EditorsApril 6, 2018

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