A visit to a new NativityMiguel school
George M. Anderson
Posted inFrom Our Archives
Pilgrimages for Peace: Bob Mann on postwar Cambodia
How did you happen to go to Cambodia? I left the United States in 1979 to work as a physician’s assistant with Jesuit Refugee Services in camps on the Thailand-Cambodia border; it was the time of the Khmer Rouge slaughter of Cambodians, the so-called killing fields. Initially I was to stay onl
Posted inEditorials
Rich Nation, Poor People: A report
With income inequality in the United States hitting ever higher levels, it nonetheless comes as a jolt to learn that the share of after-tax income going to the wealthiest 1 percent of households has reached its highest point since the start of the Great Depression. Such is the conclusion of several
Posted inIn All Things
Orderly Disorder
My office neighbor Pat Kossman America s literary editor is super neat A place for everything and everything in its place is my impression of her take on the issue That is not mine at all First-time visitors to my own office tend to look about in dismay at papers and books on every flat
Posted inFaith in Focus
Mexicos Drug Violence: Shared border, shared responsibility
Much of Mexicos drug-related violence has roots in the United States, our peoples insatiable demand for illegal drugs. State of Siege, a report by the nonprofit Washington Office on Latin America, notes that the United States shares responsibility for drug-connected violence because the level of con
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Woman of Peace: The radical witness of Anne Montgomery
Whatever you do, do quickly.” Spoken two decades ago, these words of Anne Montgomery’s provincial superior to her were both a sign of support and an acknowledgment of advancing age. Now 80 years old, 60 of them lived as a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart, Sister Montgomery has
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Scientific Racism
ldquo A bright mulatto is stripped to a nude condition and a careful examination is made of all parts of the body by the Dr and she is pronounced by him to be sound The money is then paid and she is transferred to her new owner rdquo With this mid-19th-century description of the sale of a
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Of Many Things
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Nativity-Model Schools Go International
It seems an unlikely place to start a school with a strong faith tradition—the formerly Communist Czech Republic. Yet as Josef Horehled, a priest of the Czech Province of the Society of Jesus, explains it, “This is what we need, a Nativity-type middle school in the Christian tradition, one that reaches out to the children of poor minority families who remain on the margins of society.”