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ISLAMIC REFORM
Out of the Shadows?
Raids by federal agents on five Swift meatpacking plants last December around the country, as well as raids in New Bedford, Mass., in March, called public attention to the fear haunting the lives of undocumented immigrants. As the raids demonstrated, fear of family breakup runs high among the undocumented, with the specter of breadwinners deported and U.S. citizen children left behind in the United States.
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Remembrance and Hope
A shoeless boy wearily weaves his way down the street, alone, in a limp pair of soiled shorts and a torn T-shirt.
Salvation Among the Poor
Why do you return to your former parish in El Salvador every year or two?
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Monk and Poet
Foley award winner John Slater on bonsai trees, Thomas Merton and life at the Abbey of the Genesee.
Our Catholic Hemisphere
With a new president in Mexico and a more immigration-friendly majority in place in both houses of the U.S.
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Now two years into his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI has published a work that is fast becoming a bestseller everywhere.
Books
“A bright mulatto...is stripped to a nude condition...and a careful examination is made of all parts of the body by the Dr.
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Monk and Poet
Foley award winner John Slater on bonsai trees, Thomas Merton and life at the Abbey of the Genesee.
