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RNS @rns.org · 09/10/2026
(RNS) — Bishop Dennis G. Walsh wrote to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to urge him to stop the deportation of Fatou Traore, which he called a ‘grave violation of her human dignity and the rights that are intrinsic to each one of us.’
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Catholic Iowa bishop steps up in case of immigrant from Ivory Coast facing deportation
(RNS) — Bishop Dennis G. Walsh wrote to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to urge him to stop the deportation of Fatou Traore, which he called a ‘grave violation of her human dignity and the rights that are intrinsic to each one of us.’
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The pope said "lived experience" and now everything is ruined.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The military’s proposal—which Mr. Hegseth endorsed with a social media post—to livestream the execution is so far outside the moral norm that it almost becomes difficult to articulate why the idea of a public execution is so morally awful. www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...
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The death of the American conscience will be livestreamed
To livestream an execution is so far outside the moral norm that it almost becomes difficult to articulate why it is so morally awful.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
According to the archdiocese, the majority of the 150 immigration detainees held at the Ste. Genevieve County facility are Hispanic Catholics. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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St. Louis archdiocese sues DHS and ICE to bring sacraments to immigrant detainees
“Catholics receive the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and the deprivation of these sacraments imposes real and immediate harm on Catholic detainees and priests,” the archdiocese said.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/10/2026
President Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million in debt issued by SpaceX just days before the White House announced a new space-travel policy, the president’s latest financial disclosure form shows.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
According to a joint Catholic-Evangelical report published last year, approximately 60 percent of the people targeted by ICE for mass detention and eventual deportation following the Trump administration’s policies are expected to be Catholic. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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St. Louis archdiocese sues DHS and ICE to bring sacraments to immigrant detainees
“Catholics receive the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and the deprivation of these sacraments imposes real and immediate harm on Catholic detainees and priests,” the archdiocese said.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In a statement announcing the suit, which named both local and federal officials, including Homeland Security Sec Markwayne Mullin, archdiocesan officials challenged the detention site’s “no contact” policies. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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St. Louis archdiocese sues DHS and ICE to bring sacraments to immigrant detainees
“Catholics receive the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and the deprivation of these sacraments imposes real and immediate harm on Catholic detainees and priests,” the archdiocese said.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Some bishops supported military rule. None openly condemned the murder of Bishop Angelelli. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Church in Argentina remembers martyrs as Milei administration downplays ‘dirty war’ atrocities
The 50th anniversary of the Argentina’s military dictatorship arrived amid controversy in the country.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2026
Roughly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of Medicare-for-all, according to a new KFF poll, the highest share since the health policy research and news organization began polling on the idea 10 years ago.
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Medicare-for-all support is rising, KFF poll finds
The survey also found that the public’s views of a national health plan are highly malleable.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
International humanitarian funding has contracted by almost a third since 2023, according to The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2026. Cuts from the United States and Germany accounted for 90 percent of the foreign assistance reduction in 2025. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Global Catholic charity head says they’re doing ‘less with less’ after Trump’s foreign aid cuts
Even as some foreign aid has been revived, pledges from donor states remain far below the world’s needs and humanitarian groups are still struggling to recover from 2025’s debilitating cuts.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Humanitarian aid is now “the lowest it has been since the Second World War as a percentage of [gross domestic product].” That turn of events as “just shameful.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Global Catholic charity head says they’re doing ‘less with less’ after Trump’s foreign aid cuts
Even as some foreign aid has been revived, pledges from donor states remain far below the world’s needs and humanitarian groups are still struggling to recover from 2025’s debilitating cuts.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Even as some foreign aid flows have been revived in recent months, pledges from donor states remain far below the world’s needs, and humanitarian actors are still struggling to recover from 2025’s debilitating cuts. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Global Catholic charity head says they’re doing ‘less with less’ after Trump’s foreign aid cuts
Even as some foreign aid has been revived, pledges from donor states remain far below the world’s needs and humanitarian groups are still struggling to recover from 2025’s debilitating cuts.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“There’s this kind of magical thinking that it’s all going to continue. We can just ‘make it work’ somehow with less,” Alistair Dutton of Caritas Internationalis said. “We’re going to do less with less.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Global Catholic charity head says they’re doing ‘less with less’ after Trump’s foreign aid cuts
Even as some foreign aid has been revived, pledges from donor states remain far below the world’s needs and humanitarian groups are still struggling to recover from 2025’s debilitating cuts.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eamon Martin, the archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, described himself as “deeply saddened that the people of the Garvaghy Road, and of our wider society, find themselves, once again, facing a moment of such tension, fear and uncertainty.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Protestant march through Catholic community opens old wounds in Northern Ireland
The approval of a contested march through a Catholic nationalist neighborhood has sharpened tensions between nationalist and unionist communities across Northern Ireland.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Protestant march through Catholic community opens old wounds in Northern Ireland www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Protestant march through Catholic community opens old wounds in Northern Ireland
The approval of a contested march through a Catholic nationalist neighborhood has sharpened tensions between nationalist and unionist communities across Northern Ireland.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
According to U.N. sources, some 50 million people around the world are caught up in human trafficking and various forms of contemporary enslavement. More than 60 percent of them are women and children. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Catholic sisters bring fight to end human trafficking to U.N. General Assembly
Gertrude Elelegu, S.S.L., of Nigeria and Sarah Puls, S.G.S., of Australia have devoted many years to mitigating the global scourge of human trafficking and restoring the people traumatized by their ex...
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“For the last year and a half,” Cardinal McElroy said, “the people of the United States have witnessed the suffering of the undocumented in our midst, purposely and strategically magnified by our government, and for the most part, we have simply passed on by.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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At Mass for Migrants, Washington’s Cardinal McElroy says public cannot ‘pass by’ plight of immigrants
“For the last year and a half,” Cardinal McElroy said, “the people of the United States have witnessed the suffering of the undocumented in our midst, purposely and strategically magnified by our gove...
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cardinal Robert McElroy issued another sharp denouncement of Trump administration immigration enforcement and deportation policies, adding to the growing collection of such pronouncements from U.S. church leaders around the country in recent months. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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At Mass for Migrants, Washington’s Cardinal McElroy says public cannot ‘pass by’ plight of immigrants
“For the last year and a half,” Cardinal McElroy said, “the people of the United States have witnessed the suffering of the undocumented in our midst, purposely and strategically magnified by our gove...
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cardinal McElroy: “The people of the United States have witnessed the suffering of the undocumented in our midst, purposely and strategically magnified by our government, and for the most part, we have simply passed on by.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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At Mass for Migrants, Washington’s Cardinal McElroy says public cannot ‘pass by’ plight of immigrants
“For the last year and a half,” Cardinal McElroy said, “the people of the United States have witnessed the suffering of the undocumented in our midst, purposely and strategically magnified by our gove...
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Catholic sisters bring fight to end human trafficking to U.N. General Assembly www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Catholic sisters bring fight to end human trafficking to U.N. General Assembly
Gertrude Elelegu, S.S.L., of Nigeria and Sarah Puls, S.G.S., of Australia have devoted many years to mitigating the global scourge of human trafficking and restoring the people traumatized by their ex...
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ok, but what do these folks think my "company paid for" family coverage costs me each month, both in various co-pays and in lost salary? Far more than $1.6k I assure you. I agree the system overall completely sucks, but folks with corporate provided coverage are shouldering deep costs too.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.commonwealmagazine.org/symposium-is... @commonwealmagazine.org has published a very interesting collection of articles on the 60th anniversary of Time magazine's famous cover story, "Is God Dead?" Worthy reading.
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Still Not Dead
This symposium reconsiders 'Time' magazine's landmark cover on the "death of God," sixty years later.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
awesome
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British Jesuit Archives @jesuitarchives.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Curious about Ignatian spirituality and want to find out more? @jesuitinstitute.bsky.social has created a short online evening session via Zoom for those new to Ignatian spirituality. The session is this Thursday 24 September 2026. Find out more and register👉 www.jesuitinstitute.org/events/explo...
Illuminated manuscript style P with drawing of a bearded man in dark gown and with halo around his balding head sitting writing at a desk using ink and feather. Around the initial there is foliage and colourful flowers and the words spell The Prayer of Saint Ignatius.
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Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good. ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC stop pool coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico to Sue Trump Administration Over White House Access: Live Updates
CNN, MS NOW and Politico said they would sue to regain access to the White House. They argued in a joint statement that President Trump’s decision to block them violates the First Amendment.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I [had] to say something ... It’s a moral issue. It is so at odds with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” Mr. French’s comments on X were “not even ‘dog whistle’ words,” Bishop Olson said. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Interview: Bishop Olson on the ‘racist and sinful rhetoric’ of a Texas politician
Bishop Olson responded to Bo French: “This is racist and sinful rhetoric that seeks to harm and to divide. It is disturbing that it comes from a candidate for public office. An apology is called for.”
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Manuel" shared this video from where he was dumping tomatoes into the trailers. "I get paid around $150 per 5-7 hour day. The buckets weigh about 30 pounds when full of tomatoes. I dump around 1,500 buckets daily. It’s hard work and my shoulders and arms ache." #WeFeedYou
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh snap
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
His condemnation of a post by a local Texas politician on X has drawn almost a million views and provoked thousands of comments on that social media platform. Sadly, most of them are as hateful as the post he had first deplored. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Interview: Bishop Olson on the ‘racist and sinful rhetoric’ of a Texas politician
Bishop Olson responded to Bo French: “This is racist and sinful rhetoric that seeks to harm and to divide. It is disturbing that it comes from a candidate for public office. An apology is called for.”
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Recalling Benjamin Franklin’s admonition: “A republic, if you can keep it,” he adds: “I think there’s a lot of people that don’t want to keep it on both sides.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Interview: Bishop Olson on the ‘racist and sinful rhetoric’ of a Texas politician
Bishop Olson responded to Bo French: “This is racist and sinful rhetoric that seeks to harm and to divide. It is disturbing that it comes from a candidate for public office. An apology is called for.”
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Interview: Bishop Olson on the ‘racist and sinful rhetoric’ of a Texas politician www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Interview: Bishop Olson on the ‘racist and sinful rhetoric’ of a Texas politician
Bishop Olson responded to Bo French: “This is racist and sinful rhetoric that seeks to harm and to divide. It is disturbing that it comes from a candidate for public office. An apology is called for.”
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hans Zollner, SJ: “I think we pay a price now as priests in this situation, when you can easily be the target of a false allegation because for decades, for centuries, the church has not acted according to her own law and has not taken appropriate measures.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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With sex abuse allegations, some priests wonder: Will I be presumed innocent until proven guilty?
When a priest is accused of sex abuse, should they be removed before an investigation is complete?
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Any system can be improved, Kathleen McChesney says, but “you have to do the research on how cases are being handled canonically and how they have been handled since 2002—what’s gone right, what’s gone wrong? I just don’t see that [happening now].” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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With sex abuse allegations, some priests wonder: Will I be presumed innocent until proven guilty?
When a priest is accused of sex abuse, should they be removed before an investigation is complete?
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Father Pfleger charged that the “presumption of innocence does not exist for priests.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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With sex abuse allegations, some priests wonder: Will I be presumed innocent until proven guilty?
When a priest is accused of sex abuse, should they be removed before an investigation is complete?
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Any system can be improved, Kathleen McChesney says, but “you have to do the research on how cases are being handled canonically and how they have been handled since 2002—what’s gone right, what’s gone wrong? I just don’t see that [happening now].” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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With sex abuse allegations, some priests wonder: Will I be presumed innocent until proven guilty?
When a priest is accused of sex abuse, should they be removed before an investigation is complete?
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Big step backward by Trump admin this week ... Care for the poor means addressing America’s air quality problem uscatholic.org/articles/202...
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Care for the poor means addressing America’s air quality problem
With nearly half of America's children breathing unhealthy air, Catholics have a duty to work for change—even if our political leaders won't.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
why can't we have nice things finalist America Can Learn from Denmark on Good Government www.theamericanconservative.com/america-can-...
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America Can Learn from Denmark on Good Government
Conversations in Copenhagen revealed what a life without financial terror would be like.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
John Jay criminologists and researchers at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate are currently working on an updated, comprehensive evaluation of the crisis and the church’s response. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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With sex abuse allegations, some priests wonder: Will I be presumed innocent until proven guilty?
When a priest is accused of sex abuse, should they be removed before an investigation is complete?
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Though they have perhaps not been made as passionately before, Father Pfleger’s criticisms are not exactly new. Many have made similar critiques of the mandated review process since the Dallas Charter was first enacted in 2002. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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With sex abuse allegations, some priests wonder: Will I be presumed innocent until proven guilty?
When a priest is accused of sex abuse, should they be removed before an investigation is complete?
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🧵1/2 Petition: Require all car park operators to build green roof and solar panel parking shelters which could reduce the need to use farmland for solar farms and support biodiversity. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77... Deadline 4 February
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Bel’s death “is not an isolated tragedy,” the New Sanctuary Movement said in a Sept. 2 statement announcing the vigil. “What we are witnessing is a politics of death, a system in which human life itself becomes disposable, contingent, revocable.” www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/09...
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Haitian youth's apparent suicide 'a death of despair' after TPS Haiti ends, says archbishop
Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old student on scholarship in his first semester at Dayton's Wright State University, was pronounced dead at the scene after walking into traffic on Interstate 70 in Spring...
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not exactly a shock ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says
An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.
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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sociologist Ryan Burge isn't buying media reports that Christianity is flourishing www.ncronline.org/news/sociolo...
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Sociologist Ryan Burge isn't buying media reports that Christianity is flourishing
Contrary to recent anecdotes, his number crunching concludes that American Christianity is losing ground, with older and whiter congregations often closer to dying than experiencing long-term growth.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
From June: Crisis in Congo is now described as the the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history ... www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Did humanitarian aid cuts contribute to Africa’s Ebola outbreak?
The escalating outbreak threatens to become the deadliest Ebola crisis on record if the international community does not quickly step up its humanitarian and medical response.
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Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Why I protest against ICE—even when it feels hopeless John Feister in America mag www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...
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Why I protest against ICE—even when it feels hopeless
The lying, the secrecy, the racist comments about Haitians from political leaders have motivated people to protest this morning. But what good will we do?
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