Voices
Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
FaithScripture Reflections
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and companions, by Kevin Clarke
FaithFaith in Focus
Birth and death bookend our temporal experience, but we are called to fill everything between them with love and mercy and decency, not cling to fantasies of a fraudulent eternity.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Sister Norma Pimentel has devoted years to protecting life at the border as migrant flows rise and fall. Growing anxiety over the lifting of Title 42 controls at the border has been a recent distraction from her ministry.
FaithScripture Reflections
A Reflection for the Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles, by Kevin Clarke
Politics & SocietyDispatches
“She would be happy about having a ferry named after her,” said Robert Steed, a former Catholic Worker and editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper, adding, “maybe even more so than being canonized.”
Politics & SocietyDispatches
A ruling against the DACA program could mean that after years of personal and civic struggle, Dreamers would once again face the possibility of deportation.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Subsistence farmers affected by drought will have to make it to the United States to feed their families and save their farms or cattle. Their departure leaves a gaping hole in families and the community.
FaithScripture Reflections
A reflection for Wednesday in the Octave of Easter, by Kevin Clarke
Politics & SocietyShort Take
On March 27, 40 men died in a fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez. The appalling loss of life has many more authors than the people likely to be punished for it.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
The protest was organized by women’s advocates and the family, friends and neighbors of Ana Lizeth Hernández, a 33-year-old woman who died of a gunshot wound to the head in her home on March 19.