her gloveless hands presenting dusty news her crisp brown eyes rising and quickly plummeting to her graying sneakers with each squeaky swipe of the automatic doors as shoppers exit, heavy bags swinging from their elbows this word in front of that word that you hear yourself say to her we suffer when we believe in […]
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Pope asks for forgiveness for Catholic Church’s role in Rwanda genocide
Pope Francis asked God’s forgiveness for the failures of the Catholic Church during the 1994 Rwanda genocide and for the hatred and violence perpetrated by some priests and religious.
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Catholic leaders wary of Trump’s proposed cuts to international aid and anti-poverty programs
The president’s proposed budget calls for ending several international aid programs.
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Will President Trump rescind this national monument’s status from Native Americans?
A tribal coalition, which considers many sites within Bears Ears sacred, fears the Trump administration will take the unprecedented step of stripping a national monument of its designation, and leave their ancestral lands vulnerable.
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Ensure human rights in trade and investment treaty, Guatemalan bishop urges UN
Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri is urging governments to ensure human rights are given priority in trade and investment by big companies when a U.N. treaty is developed this fall.
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5 tips for students engaging in politics on campus
This sobering new reality for immigrant students presents questions and issues for all students on campus as well as those high school seniors planning to attend college in the fall.
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A Theology that Weeps
John A. Coleman, S.J., reviews “A Church of the Poor: Pope Francis and the Transformation of Orthodoxy” by Clemens Sedmak.
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Former Vatican ambassador: Border walls reflect inhumane indifference
U.S. Catholics must welcome refugees, immigrants and strangers as a fundamental expression of Christian faith.
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Hollywood’s push for diversity is ignoring the largest minority community
A number of the Oscar winners and nominees have played disabled characters, but only two of them identified as disabled.
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Showing racial bias saves a man’s life on death row in Texas
“This decision reflects the extent to which the death penalty is racially biased and a broken policy,” said Karen Clifton,