The PBS host once asked, “What do you do with the mad that you feel?” The question is as relevant as ever.
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Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Georgetown liturgy does penance for sale of 272 enslaved people in 1838
Georgetown University and the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States began a process of penance and restitution, acknowledging an institutional sin in 1838 which preserved the university but condemned 272 to slavery in Louisiana.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Welcoming the stranger means welcoming new housing
Escalating rents and home prices have created invisible walls around communities all over the United States.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Executing 7 men in 10 days this Easter will not restore justice to Arkansas
Why do we use violence to solve violence?
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Syrian Catholic leaders criticize U.S. missile strikes, experts question larger strategy
“We need to have a national debate on these things; it’s not a decision for the president to make in the dead of night.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
The Supreme Court, the Senate and the Filibuster
Republican senators invoking the “nuclear option” to confirm Justice Gorsuch is a new development. But contention over the court and the filibuster has a long history.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
US blasts Syria base with cruise missiles
The strikes hit the government-controlled Shayrat air base in central Syria, where U.S. officials say the Syrian military planes that dropped the chemicals had taken off.
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President Trump’s Scorched Earth Day
The U-turn on environmental policies comes as evidence mounts that climate change has already caused significant damage, from killing large sections of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to causing severe drought in Africa.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
New data suggest Clinton, not Trump, won Catholic vote
Clinton may have narrowly won the Catholic vote, but there were huge differences between Hispanics and non-Hispanics.
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Third time might be the charm for Mexico’s leftist ‘eternal candidate’ running for president
As next year’s presidential election draws ever closer, former Mexico City mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador may be the number one candidate.