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A statue of Baltimore Archbishop John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the United States and founder of Georgetown University, is seen on the Jesuit-run school's Washington campus on March 3, 2022. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Chaz Muth)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Connor Hartigan
Edward Martin, interim United States attorney for the District of Columbia, said he would refuse to hire Georgetown Law graduates unless the school eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Brenda and Yarely—two "Dreamers" posing for a photo before their 2018 graduation from Trinity Washington University—consider themselves symbols of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
Diminishing public support, along with the Trump administration’s intense focus on immigration, has left DACA recipients uncertain about their future.
Ukrainan President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron hold a meeting during a European leaders' summit at Lancaster House in central London March 2, 2025. (OSV News photo/Justin Tallis, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
The European bishops were careful to note that their expression of solidarity was extended to Ukrainians “who have been suffering from Russia’s unjustifiable full-scale invasion for more than three years.”
White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
President Donald Trump said that he would hold South Africa accountable for rights violations against white Afrikaners, a group of people he described as “innocent disfavored minority farmers.
A homeless person sleeping in the city center of Dublin in July 2024. Rising homelessness is part of the housing crisis facing Ireland‘s new government. (iStock/Derick Hudson)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Hargaden
The new government in Ireland (which looks remarkably like the last one) faces a housing crisis that has become an economic and demographic emergency.
Residents walk by charred vehicles in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Jan. 31. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed groups have competed for power and control of this vast nation’s potential fortune.