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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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Report critical of sluggish international response to vast human rights violations
In All Things
Like most folks I have been following events in Ferguson Missouri with equal measures of despair and frustration I have even watched the live feed from Vice news before a queasy feeling sent me away from my computer screen mdash the realization that I may have stumbled upon a new cultural phenom w
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The rapid collapse of Qaraqosh, Iraq's largest Christian city, was a surprise to many.
Signs Of the Times
Israeli forces began withdrawing from parts of the Gaza Strip on Aug. 3, after a quick collapse of a humanitarian ceasefire on Aug. 1 and a ferocious bombardment of the border community of Rafah in its aftermath. As what he described as a redeployment of Israeli forces began, Prime Minister Benjamin
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The latest ceasefire in Gaza unraveled less than two hours after it began on Aug 1 when a Hamas operation led to the killing of two I D F soldiers and the capture of a third updated IDF now reports soldier believed captured had been killed and circumstances around the incident are disputed In
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U.S. Jesuits make appeal to Jesuit alumni in Congress to uphold human dignity.
In All Things
Here 39 s an AP lead you don 39 t see every day nbsp Members of Congress are falling over one another to show their support for Israel nbsp While much of the rest of the world watches the Gaza war in horror and scrambles for a cease-fire U S lawmakers are pressing the Obama administration to t
Signs Of the Times
Jennifer M. Haselberger, former chancellor of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, accuses top church leaders of a “cavalier attitude” toward the safety of children.
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Testimony in a affidavit in St. Paul, Minn., offers 'cause for concern.'
In All Things
The Israel Defence Forces have begun a ground incursion on the Gaza Strip.