Voices

Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
Dispatches
“If a person comes from behind and he shoots someone dead and he does not ask for watches, he does not ask for money, what is it? If it is not a hate crime, what would it be?”
FaithIn All Things
Catholic hospitals are accused of sub-par care of women. CHA’s Sister Carol Keehan says it ain’t so.
“Pregnancies with problems don’t need to be referred for abortion, they need to be taken care of at the hospitals, and at Catholic hospitals they are taken care of.”
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Deploring a campaign of extrajudicial killings that has, according to local media, claimed more than 800 lives, the president of the Philippines bishops' conference issued a direct challenge to President Rodrigo Duterte and his supporters.
Of Other Things
How many already suffer from dramatic-post stress disorder?
Dispatches
The killings have stoked fear and anger in the largely Bangladeshi Muslim community in Queens and Brooklyn.
Dispatches
"From a generation of drug addicts shall we become a generation of street murderers?"
FaithFeatures
It is likely that “you don’t see them because they don’t come.”
Signs Of the Times
The deaths of two African-American men last month at the hands of police in Baton Rouge, La., and Falcon Heights, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul, provoked soul-searching and demonstrations against police brutality and institutional racism around the country. In a jolt to the entire nation, the killings
Signs Of the Times
Tighter Western security measures and immigration controls are two likely outcomes of a truck attack in France on July 14, but a closer appraisal of “crisis architecture” may be another response to the unprecedented attack.“I think that, sadly, we’re at a place where—no
Dispatches
“These types of attacks are not going away,” said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.