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Personnel in hazmat suits work to secure a tent over the bench in Salisbury where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found critically ill by exposure to a nerve agent on March 4. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
David Stewart
The nerve-agent attack on two Russians in the cathedral city of Salisbury has Britons feeling as though they are back in the pages of a James Bond novel.
Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (image from campaign website)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Opponents say that leftist firebrand Andrés Manuel López Obrador is Putin’s favored candidate; he is brushing off the accusations of Russian interference in Mexico.
Pope Francis meets participants in the International symposium on a nuclear-weapons-free world, at the Vatican, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Drew Christiansen
Pope Francis’ condemnation of deterrence is a strong challenge to nuclear strategies of the superpowers, including the United States.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, visited Russia from Aug. 20 to 24, upon an invitation from Russian state and church authorities.
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The meeting included "an exchange of views on various themes, both international and relating to bilateral relations."
FaithFaith in Focus
Daniel L. Flaherty
To this day I have no idea why the editor of ‘America’ asked me, the youngest and newest member of the staff, to write the story.