“You can’t understand [border realities] by talking to government officials. You have to talk to the people who are working with migrants and hear about the suffering.”
J.D. Long García
J.D. Long García is a senior editor at America. He is the author of A Journalism of Liberation and co-author of Clericalism: The Institutional Dimension of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis.
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Is there a ‘crisis’ on the U.S.-Mexico border? It’s a tough question to answer.
‘It is a question of perspective. Whose perspective do we adopt when we ask questions like that?’
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The Jesuits have pledged to raise $100 million to advance racial healing. But reconciliation is about more than money.
The collaboration with the Jesuits addresses a specific historical injustice but more broadly seeks to offer a model that might accelerate racial healing and advance racial justice in the United States.
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What are you willing to die for? A conversation with Archbishop Charles Chaput
“Jesus thought we were worth dying for,” the retired archbishop of Philadelphia said. ”There must be a lot of things that we ought to think are worth living and dying for.”
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
Reflection: Women were oppressed in Jesus’ time, too. How much longer will we stand by?
Jesus does not condemn the woman caught in adultery, and he does not condemn us. But he challenges her, and he challenges us, to sin no more.
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Reflection: The freedom that Óscar Romero found in Jesus
The freedom we find in Christ can lead us to act on behalf of the marginalized.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
How an 11-month school year and 10-hour days help prepare boys in Phoenix to be men for others
Loyola Academy at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix is a program for incoming sixth grade boys who demonstrate academic gifts and financial need.
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‘Stop blaming Trump’: Immigration advocates call on Biden to address the border crisis
Some things have changed on the southern border, but a lot of things remain the same, according to Catholic humanitarian groups on the ground.
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The Jesuits partner with descendants of enslaved people they once owned and sold to raise $100 million for racial justice
The Society of Jesus is teaming up with the descendants of enslaved people once owned by the religious order to reconcile and heal the deep racial wounds of America.
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Xavier Becerra, Biden’s HHS pick, is ‘an enemy of the health of women and the unborn,’ pro-life leaders say
Meanwhile, Sister Carol Keehan, who led the Catholic Health Association for 14 years, called Becerra “a leader whose character is rooted in his Catholic upbringing and values.”