Berlusconi’s election campaign promised a severe clampdown on “Roma, clandestine immigrants and criminals”—it was one of the main reasons for his election.
Politics & Society
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Welcome the Stranger
Missing from most of the national immigration debate has been the humanitarian aspects of the migration phenomenon.
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A Man of Independent Character: John J. Wynne and the founding of America magazine
When seven Jesuits arrived to set up shop at 32 Washington Square West on Feb. 6, 1909, they had some distinguished company among the buildings flanking New York City’s famous Washington Square Park.
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Geraldine Ferraro and Catholic Prejudice
Geraldine Ferraro commented that Barack Obama has attained the heights of his political success only because he is black. The comment made me sick to my stomach.
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
Franz Jägerstätter: The Austrian farmer who said no to Hitler
The story of the rowdy young man who was martyred for refusing to obey Hitler.
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A Professor, a President and the Klan
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education (May 1954), racial tensions in Alabama heightened considerably. When in February 1956 Autherine Lucy, a black student, began attending class at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, white students and community membe
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Art, a Necessary Voice: An Interview With Dennis Leder
What drew you to Guatemala?
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Descent Into Hell
My local newspaper’s front page headline read Barbaric, a word uttered by the director of the Iraqi Defense Ministry’s operations room
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A Mandate for Anti-Catholicism: The Blaine Amendment
In recent years a better understanding of American history has gradually moved the U.S. Supreme Court away from a strict separationist perspective on church and state and toward a greater accommodation of religion.
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The Jesuits of Baghdad
The Jesuits certainly will return to Bagdad, because a place so important to Islam as well as to Christianity cannot be ignored for very long. What form the future mission will take we leave to the Holy Spirit, who took us there in the first place. But one thing is clear: the Jesuit mission to the Iraqis did not end in 1969.