A World in Pain

Jim Stage could only watch through a phone app as surveillance cameras showed the looting and destruction of his St. Paul, Minnesota, pharmacy on May 28 during violent protests over the death of George Floyd. That night the building was burned to the ground, but, thankfully, there were no... Read more

But if you want money for people with minds that hateAll I can tell is brother you’ll have to wait.— John Lennon (From the lyrics of “Revolution” by the Beatles) The recent racially-charged rioting across the United States has been described as the worst civil unrest in this... Read more

Minnesota's Attorney General’s Office is expected to announce upgraded charges against Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck, and has added new charges against the three other officers at the scene. Chauvin will now be charged... Read more

When a black man is just a boy, his parents will likely have two conversations with him.  The first is about life in general — things like being careful crossing the street, how to choose one’s friends and be a responsible young man. The second is about how to act around law... Read more

Pope John Paul II called racism a plague, its manifestation in the United States “one of the most persistent and destructive evils of the nation.” For the millions who experience racism, it can be encouraging to get to know Saints who were also targets of abuse, disdain, and even... Read more

The rest of the country knows George Floyd from several minutes of cell phone footage captured during his final hours. But in Houston’s Third Ward, they know Floyd for how he lived for decades—a mentor to a generation of young men and a “person of peace” ushering ministries into the... Read more

The Minnesota Catholic Conference on Tuesday called the death of a black man while he was in police custody a “tragedy,” and welcomed an investigation. A video circulated online on Tuesday of a May 25 arrest in Minneapolis. In the video an officer with the Minneapolis Police... Read more

The story of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder is even stranger and more unsettling than it first appeared to be. The 25-year-old black man was shot and killed in February after two armed white men, 64-year-old Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, spotted Arbery jogging in... Read more

Two men involved in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery near Brunswick, Georgia, have been arrested and face murder and aggravated assault charges, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, were taken into custody and will be... Read more

The suicide rate in the United States continues to rise, increasing 35% for almost two decades from 1999 through 2018, according to a new data brief released by the National Center for Health Statistics on Wednesday.The report included mortality data from the center's National Vital Statistics... Read more