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A pharmacy technician displays one of the drugs used to treat patients with HIV at Our Lady of Apostles Hospital in Akwanga, Nigeria, in this 2010 file photo. Like many such efforts, the hospital has been reliant on PEPFAR funding from the U.S. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Improvements in health care in Eswatini have relied for years on Pepper and the generosity of the American people. During the height of the H.I.V./AIDS pandemic, Eswatini’s population plummeted, and life expectancy dropped from 61 in 1988 to 44 by 2003.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attends an event at the Liberal Party election night headquarters in Ottawa April 29, 2025. (OSV News photo/Jennifer Gauthier, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Grace Copps
“Carney is responding to the [immigration] backlash but also to the Trump effect, which is placing more pressure on Canada to tighten its border.”
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele at the White House in Washington April 14, 2025. (OSV News photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
”Do not collaborate in the fight against migrants by the great colonizing countries.”
President Donald Trump, center, surrounded by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., speaks to reporters before a House Republican conference meeting, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
John C. Wester
The church and the bishops of the United States should lead the way in speaking against this bill and calling on Catholics to work for its defeat, writes Archbishop John C. Wester of Sante Fe.
Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Richard A. Levins
Elon Musk and DOGE have used the language of efficiency to impose a radical change in how we view helping others.
Solar panels on the roof of the Paul VI audience hall at the Vatican in this Dec. 1, 2010, file photo. The installation had been approved by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008. Pope Francis released his landmark environmental encyclical "Laudato Si'" 10 years ago May 24, 2015. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
There are some signs of progress in addressing the questions raised in “Laudato Si’.” There are also intimations of backpedaling, particularly by the Trump administration, regarding the industrialized world’s malign effects on creation.