‘The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology Amid Gaza,’ edited by the Palestinian theologians (and brothers) John and Samuel Munayer, can teach us much about a faith-based, justice response to the situation in the Middle East today.
Rafael García, S.J.
Rafael García, S.J., has been pastor twice at Sacred Heart Church on the El Paso-Juárez border and serves as a volunteer chaplain at two ICE detention centers. In 2018, he founded the Encuentro Project border immersion program in El Paso, Tex.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics take a stand against Trump’s cruel anti-immigrant actions at the U.S. border
As people of faith, we must defend migrants and refugees at a time when the state is increasingly moving to dehumanize them.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Deportation to deadly countries is an evil we can avoid
Can a Catholic carry out his or her job duties in good conscience if they include the deportation of people facing imminent death in their home countries?
Posted inIn All Things
Sin and Grace in Honduras
The problems facing Honduras are complex and have escalated since the military coup in 2009 The most violent nation in the Americas Honduras is plagued by a multidimensional crisis the dispossession of many citizens of their rightful farmland the unrestricted destruction of land and communities