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Social fabric?

- Bishops condemn chaos, corruption, anti-Christian violence in Central African Republic, CatholicCulture.org, June 25, 2013.

2. In a week when he tried to focus attention on the struggles of the middle class, President Barack Obama said in an interview that he was worried that years of widening income inequality and the lingering effects of the financial crisis had frayed the country's social fabric and undermined Americans' belief in opportunity.

Upward mobility, Obama said in a 40-minute interview with The New York Times, “was part and parcel of who we were as Americans.”

“And that's what's been eroding over the last 20, 30 years, well before the financial crisis,” he added.

- Income inequality fraying social fabric, Obama says, BostonGlobe.com, July 27, 2013.

3. Three-year-old McKenzie Elliott was playing on her front porch in the afternoon when someone rode past on a bicycle and started shooting. A neighbor threw herself on top of Elliott to protect her, but she had already been hit.

Her murder, too, remains unsolved, though the police commissioner at the time, Anthony Batts, announced publicly in the days after Elliott's death that he expected to make an arrest within a week. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake fired Batts earlier this month.

“I blame the neighborhood because somebody knows who did it,” said Elliott's godmother Tanya Watt. “There's a street code where you don't tell, but there's no rule when it comes to a three-year-old.”