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Workers Justice Project Director Gonzalo Cruz, left, and organizer Juan Carlos Romero watch President Joe Biden's presidential inauguration on TV in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York. The Workers Justice Project is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that helps immigrants. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Catholics should work with Biden to get his immigration reform bill passed.
J. Kevin Appleby
President Joe Biden has restarted the debate over immigration with a sweeping reform bill. Passage will not be easy, but the Catholic community can help achieve a long-overdue victory.
Young women put to work at a Fe y Alegria program in Soyapango, El Salvador. The training program is one of about 20 across Central America that partner with YouthBuild, a program of Catholic Relief Services that trains young people in various work skills so they can avoid emigrating. (CNS photo/Oscar Leiva, Silverlight for Catholic Relief Services)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Joe Biden’s $4 billion plan to discourage Central American migration at its source
J.D. Long García
The Biden administration has vowed to invest $4 billion in Central America to address factors that drive immigration to the United States—economic insecurity, violence, environmental crises and government corruption.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
It will take years to understand the abuse of immigrants and refugees under the Trump administration
Gabriela Romeri
The longtime U.S. maltreatment of refugees and asylum seekers cannot be waved away by a new president.
Workers inside a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, pork processing plant wear protective gear and are separated by plastic partitions as they carve up meat. (Photo courtesy Smithfield Foods via AP)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Blocking undocumented workers from Covid vaccines will be a moral and public health disaster, ethicists say
Kevin Clarke
 “Covid knows no boundaries or immigration status; it is an indiscriminate killer.”
Central American migrants are seen inside an enclosure in El Paso, Texas
FaithFaith in Focus
We deplore King Herod for his historic cruelty. But we are hardly any better.
Valerie Schultz
The Holy Innocents of today continue to arrive and ask for our help. The way we welcome them or neglect them tells the story of who we are.
FaithDispatches
‘There’s no stopping the baby.’ The pandemic won’t cancel Posadas this Christmas.
J.D. Long García
During the nine days before Christmas, friends and family gather for the re-enactment, with two children dressing up to play the roles of Mary and Joseph.
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