The director of Caritas Colombia has called for dialogue between the country’s new president-elect and former leftist guerrillas to prevent the return of guerrilla warfare.
June 2018
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
‘Papa! Papa!’ Audio of children stokes rage over separation
An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking voices of small Spanish-speaking children crying out for their parents at a U.S. immigration facility took center stage in the growing uproar over the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
After three priests are murdered in the Philippines: ‘We will not be afraid.’
Church and political leaders alike expressed alarm over a growing culture of impunity. President Rodrigo Duterte’s frequent tirades against the Catholic Church in the Philippines are believed to have emboldened killers in the recent attacks against priests.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How Catholics are helping immigrant children separated from their parents
“‘What can I do?’ That’s what everyone needs to ask themselves. We can’t be paralyzed. We need to act.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Was your car cleaned by a slave? A new app in the U.K. tries to answer.
Tens of thousands—including children—may be trapped in illegal employment in U.K. construction, hospitality and agriculture sectors, in domestic service, and, sadly, in prostitution.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
In Tijuana, deportees find a place to call home
“About 40 percent of the people who come here speak English better than Spanish,” Father Murphy says. “They’re all Mexicans, but they got deported after being in the states 30, 40 years. Sometimes they’ll come up and ask, ‘Do you speak English?’”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Synod working document: Young Catholics need church that listens to them
The document outlines the church’s need to listen to young people, to help guide them in the faith and to identify pastoral paths to accompany them.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic bishops across U.S. condemn separation of migrant children
None have been more outspoken, however, than the bishops with dioceses on or near the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
Posted inCommunity
America Media receives record 48 awards from Catholic Press Association
America Media was recognized by the C.P.A. for “setting an incredibly high bar for intellectualism and spirituality.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Suicide and abortion stem from the same lie: that some lives don’t matter.
Choosing death is choosing death, and that choice always comes from within a dark hole.