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In this image provided by Senate Television, Sen, Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, speaks on the Senate floor on April 1, 2025. The speech lasted 25 hours and four minutes, a record for the U.S. Senate. (Senate Television via AP)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kathleen Bonnette
Cory Booker and the Hands Off protesters prove that words still have power. But only if we accompany them with action.
FaithNews
Paul O’Donnell - Religion News Service
An Oklahoma man charged Friday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Catholic priest wrote letters to a newspaper railing against the Catholic Church reforms of Vatican II and referring to a “strange new version of ‘Catholicism.’”
Chinese rescue workers stand at the site of a collapsed building in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 31, 2025, in the aftermath of a strong earthquake that struck three days earlier. People in Myanmar are in desperate need of humanitarian supplies and medical support as the death toll from the devastating earthquake that rocked central Myanmar continues to rise. (OSV News/Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“Hospitals are overwhelmed, and people are sleeping out on the streets, anywhere they can, in fields and playgrounds and religious compounds.”
A Catholic Relief Services worker distributes shelter material to a woman in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 21, 2024, displaced by the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (OSV News photo/Mohammad Al Hout for CRS)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Musk’s federal takeover produced significant collateral damage. Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. church’s global humanitarian relief and development agency, had been U.S.A.I.D.’s biggest faith-based international partner.
FaithFaith and Reason
Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J.
There is a cynical strain of MAGA, a mirror of the deconstructivism of the left, which jeers at woke hypocrisy but is not for much of anything—certainly not anything requiring faith or sacrifice.
n this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
“Trump [is] flexing his power and trying to push the law into areas that have not been tested before...and the challenge really is not to the people affected but to the rule of law itself.”