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Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Senate proposal could “wreak havoc on low-income families and struggling communities, and must not be supported,” the bishops said in a statement released on Thursday evening.  
Pemex’s network of pipelines is an easy target for gangs who puncture the ducts and siphon the fuel to sell. (Esdelval/iStock)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Thieves are puncturing fuel pipelines in Mexico and siphoning profits from the national oil company.
Los Angeles ordinations in 2017. Photo courtesy of the Jesuit Conference.
FaithDispatches
Jim McDermott
The consolidation is a work in progress. The brethren have mixed feelings about it, and their provincials know it.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Rhona Tarrant
The international press lauded the election of an openly gay son of an Indian immigrant as a sign of how progressive our tiny little island had become.
The infamous garage octopus. Photo courtesy of Richard Conlin.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Tim Padgett
Rising seas due to global warming have rendered the coastal high-water marks more obsolete by the day. That is especially true in the Miami area, which every media report on sea-level rise seems to profile as ground zero for deluge doom.
Archbishop Jean Zerbo of Bamako, Mali, is among five new cardinals to be created by Pope Francis at a June 28 Vatican consistory. (CNS photo/Nicolas Remene, EPA) 
FaithDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Pope Francis will create five new cardinals at a consistory in Rome scheduled for June 28.