Away from the rhetoric in Washington, communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are welcoming the stranger and overcoming physical barriers.
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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A Dreamer in med school fights to stop her father’s deportation
Belsy García Manrique is a year away from realizing her dream of becoming a doctor—and her father is awaiting deportation.
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¡Que viva el papa! Five years of the first Latin American pope
This week’s top U.S.-Latino Catholic news
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San Diego bishop calls Trump’s border wall “ineffective and grotesque”
As Trump touts border wall in California, skeptics say it misses the point.
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Fear of ICE keeps some participants away from Encuentro gathering
“There has been fear for years, but with the new administration, it is more severe.”
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March 2: This week’s top U.S.-Latino Catholic news
V Encuentro: How to reach fallen-away Latino Catholics
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Why do Hispanics leave the church? The Encuentro project aims to find out.
The fifth version of a project started by the U.S. bishops in 1972 goes to the peripheries of the church to welcome back Hispanics.
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‘Lives in the balance’: U.S. bishops’ call-in urges action for Dreamers
“Now is the time to pass legislation that enables the Dreamers to become citizens and full contributing members of our society,” said Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles.
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USCCB calls on Catholics to take action for Dreamers
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are urging Catholics to call Congress and demand they act on behalf of “Dreamers.”
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Archbishop Gomez urges Senate to keep families at ‘heart of our immigration policy’
More than 800,000 Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors, could lose their legal status on March 5.