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Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
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FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Clarke
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and companions, by Kevin Clarke
FaithFaith in Focus
Kevin Clarke
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.
Migrants wade across a river during as they trek across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama, in hopes of reaching the U.S., Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire Thursday, May 11. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
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.
Man in black jacket lying on floor
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Clarke
A Reflection for the Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles, by Kevin Clarke
All aboard for the inaugural run of The Dorothy Day from Staten Island to Lower Manhattan. Photo by Kevin Clarke.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“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.”
Supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals hold signs outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington in November 2019. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
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.
The Rev. Luis Melquiades Suazo, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua parish in the nearby municipality of San Antonio del Norte, visits Mercedes De Oriente.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
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.
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FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Clarke
A reflection for Wednesday in the Octave of Easter, by Kevin Clarke
A young woman weeps against an ambulance as a loved one is treated by medics after a fire broke out at the Mexican Immigration Detention center in Ciudad Juárez on Monday, March, 27, 2023. (Omar Ornelas/The El Paso Times via AP)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin Clarke
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.
Several honduran women hold a large red sign calling for justice for Ana Lizeth Hernández
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
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.