National/World News

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recount youth’s odyssey to flee Ukraine" />

Exchange student, U.S. host family
recount youth’s odyssey to flee Ukraine

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By John Shaughnessy INDIANAPOLIS — The phone call was a parent’s nightmare, waking Thomas Wright at 3 a.m. in Indianapolis. As Wright heard the…

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become ‘shockingly commonplace’" />

Bishops say U.S. mass shootings have
become ‘shockingly commonplace’

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WASHINGTON — The July 4 mass shooting brought devastation to yet another community in the U.S. and such a tragic situation “has become shockingly…

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joins U.N. treaty on climate change" />

Vatican, offering ‘moral support,’
joins U.N. treaty on climate change

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is now a formal party to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and has declared it intends also…

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Courage helps them live church teaching" />

Those with same-sex attraction say
Courage helps them live church teaching

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By Meghan Bartlett ARLINGTON Va. — In June, rainbow-colored flags waved outside restaurants, signs with mantras such as “Love is love” rested in windows…

<img src="https://therecordnewspaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20220707T1252-IN-DEPTH-POLL-RESULTS-1717457-1024x576.jpg" class="wp-post-image first-post-image" alt="Do findings of two new polls show
the path where America is headed?" />

Do findings of two new polls show
the path where America is headed?

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By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON — With the issuance of two recent Gallup polls on Americans’ belief in God and their views on morality, one…

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led to prime minister’s downfall" />

U.K. bishop: Lack of clear moral compass
led to prime minister’s downfall

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By Simon Caldwell MANCHESTER, England — Boris Johnson’s lack of “a clear moral compass” was the underlying cause of his downfall, a Catholic bishop…

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exploitation of poor, migrants is ‘grave’" />

San Antonio archbishop says
exploitation of poor, migrants is ‘grave’

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By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON — San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller in a recent homily railed on smugglers as well as the injustices toward immigrants,…