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Members of the Abolitionist Action Committee protest capital punishment in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington on June 29, 2022, to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia, which determined the death penalty was unconstitutional. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
According to the Death Penalty Information Center: “Seven of the 20 execution attempts were visibly problematic—an astonishing 37 percent—as a result of executioner incompetence, failures to follow protocols, or defects in the protocols themselves.”
a child stands holding some items of clothing as police move people from a camp in the background behind him
Politics & SocietyFeatures
J.D. Long García
The end of Title 42 could lead to the restoration of asylum on the border. The end of the measure could allow these families to, at long last, find safe haven.
Migrants cross the Mexico-U.S. border to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Dec. 12. According to the Ciudad Juarez Human Rights Office, hundreds of mostly Central American migrants arrived in buses and crossed the border to seek asylum in the U.S., after spending the night in shelters. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Catholic Charities USA officials pushed back strongly against allegations from Republican House of Representatives members that its humanitarian responses to the U.S. border crisis were potentially criminal acts.
President Joe Biden holds up his pen after signing 8nto law the Respect for Marriage Act, a landmark bill protecting same-sex marriage, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington Dec. 13, 2022. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Robert David Sullivan
The Respect for Marriage Act upholds a principle that most Americans can agree on: We are not going back to the 1950s.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
In an interview with America, Cardinal Wilton Gregory said that Catholics have an obligation to be well-informed about the news, especially when antisemitic comments or actions are prevalent.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The 117th Congress, now in lame-duck session, has a last-ditch opportunity to approve the first significant agricultural worker reform bill in a generation.