For those who have lost loved ones to Covid-19, celebrations will not be the same this year. But they will still remember the souls who have passed on to new life.
J.D. Long García
J.D. Long García is a senior editor at Americaand co-author of Clericalism: The Institutional Dimension of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis.
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The United States is becoming more Latino every day. Encuentro shows there is nothing wrong with that.
Zoom meetings and virtual conferences don’t usually start with music, laughter and dancing, but that’s how V Encuentro does it.
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How long will the Latino community have to wait for a cardinal in the United States?
By some estimates, 40 to 45 percent of U.S. Catholics are Latino, including more than 60 percent of Catholics under the age of 18. How many U.S. cardinals are Latino? Zero.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Trump defends his family separation policy in last debate against Biden
“The government doesn’t want to reunite the children with their parent…They don’t see it as their role.”
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Pope Francis calls Trump’s family separation border policy ‘cruelty of the highest form’
In a new documentary that premiered in Rome today, Pope Francis says separating migrant children from their parents is “something a Christian cannot do. It’s cruelty of the highest form.”
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Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy has thousands of asylum seekers still stuck at the border
“Asylum on the border is pretty much impossible,” a legal advocate with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, said. “Covid is being used as an excuse to close the border.”
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How to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month during the Covid-19 pandemic
With a global pandemic, ongoing racial tensions and the presidential election, Hispanic Heritage Month is looking a little different in 2020.
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How Catholic chaplains are serving the Latino community during Covid-19
Everyone dies, but not all cultures observe death in the same way.
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How Latino Catholics are grappling with their own history of racism
The United States is going through a national examination of conscience on the question of race, and the Latino community is no exception.
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Trump policies and Covid-19 could lead to undercounting the Latino community in U.S. census
The Covid-19 pandemic and skepticism of the federal government are forcing Latino leaders to get creative in promoting this year’s census, reports J.D. Long-García.