In her second novel, Jamie Quatro considers the destruction of worlds—both on a macro and on a personal scale.
US Politics
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America Media begins new initiatives with $5 million Lilly Endowment grant
Kerry Weber: “The Lilly grant is going to give us the opportunity to tell our stories in a more in-depth way and tell new stories that we may not have had the resources to tell otherwise.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Cardinal Dolan responds to NYC mass shooting: ‘Never get used to violence’
“We should never get used to violence or lose our respect for the sacredness of human life,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, following a deadly mass shooting that claimed four lives, including that of a New York City police officer.
Posted inFaith, News
Archbishop Pérez, son of migrants, tells migrants: ‘You are not alone’
The archbishop assured migrants in a pastoral letter that “the Church is a community of faith, and the divine person of Christ, who was forced to flee his homeland as a child, holds you in his compassionate arms.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
‘Lives hanging by a thread’: Looking at hunger and starvation in Gaza
Observers around the world have grown weary of the images of starving children and desperate people gunned down while trying to collect bags of flour or boxes of food.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
‘Our people are living in fear’: U.S. bishops stand up for migrants amid Trump crackdown
The U.S. church will have to contend with “deportation on steroids“ as the Trump administration adds vast new capacity to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Pope Leo condemns Israel’s attack against church, calls for end to ‘barbarity’
“I again call for an immediate end to the barbarity of the war and for a peaceful resolution of the conflict,” Pope Leo said.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Be like the good Samaritan: Put your time (and money) where your mouth is
Despair is easy for anyone who takes seriously the call to love your neighbor as yourself. But hope can come in two ways.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Texas priest whose parish lost two young girls: The only answer to tragedy is Easter
Father Joshua Whitfield of Dallas, Texas spoke to OSV News after the devastating flash flooding in Texas on July 4.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
A Palestinian Christian community is the latest target of settler violence in the West Bank
On July 7, settlers carried out a daytime arson attack on the Church of St. George and a Byzantine Christian cemetery. The fifth-century church is “one of the oldest and most venerated places of worship for Christians in Palestine.”