Kevin Clarke
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- Young Father Robert Prevost first arrived in Peru in 1985 during a time of crisis, the aftermath of devastating El Niño rains that had left thousands of people homeless. www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
- “That experience is a blessing for him as the pontiff of our church. He was out there, very concerned about the pastoral care of the people, of the migrants, of the poor.” www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
- Father Prevost’s work brought him into regular contact with campesino and Indigenous communities of great poverty but also deep spirituality, according to Kevin Flaherty, S.J. “It’s an area where you really know the poor.” www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
- The AfD strongly laments the arrival of the poor and low-skilled immigrants in Germany, accepted in previous decades, and views “the ever-increasing number of Muslims in the country…as a danger to our state, our society, and our values.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
- Pope Francis reminded the world about conflicts in the region that were sometimes forgotten. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
- It’s only a matter time before one of these foolish performance law enforcement episodes ends in real violence. Neighbors don’t like to see their neighbors dragged off by men in black masks.
- A key element of the administration’s repurposing of wartime and counterterrorism framings to other ends is aesthetic. Here ICE agents are kitted out like wannabe GWOT operators while conducting a raid in the badlands of the Berkshires. www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/ice...
- Is #PopeLeoXIV the first “pope of the periphery”? Pope Francis created cardinals from the ‘peripheries.’ Is that how we got Pope Leo XIV? | America Magazine www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
- What the what?
- Just hours after the Copyright Office released its report on AI training—stating the obvious, that much unlicensed commercial training of AI on copyright-protected material is unlikely to qualify as fair use—President Trump has fired the Register of Copyrights. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
