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Anderson, a 6-year-old unaccompanied minor from El Salvador, stands in line with other asylum-seeking children in La Joya, Texas, on May 14, as they identify themselves to a Border Patrol agent after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico. (CNS photo/Adrees Latif, Reuters)
Refugees are often seen through a political lens, writes Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, but the crisis at the Mexico border should remind us of the church’s essential ministry to those fleeing violence and poverty.
In 'The Last Brahmin,' Luke Nichter presents Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as a man who, from cradle to grave, loved his family and his country, the ideals of both of which he tried to live up to his entire life.
The sacraments took place within two socially distanced school Masses on May 13 and 14.
My dad had always been a God-like figure to me.
Though an about-face by the Biden administration brought welcome news to advocates for refugee resettlement, the process raised concerns about the political calculus at work.
The humanitarian needs were already huge without Covid and without the aggression,” Bassam Nasser, who leads the Gaza office for Catholic Relief Services, told America on May 20. “You can imagine, when you add those two challenges, the crisis will become huge.”
Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits, speaks during the presentation of the book, Walking with Ignatius, in Rome May 11, 2021. The book is based on an interview journalist Dario Menor conducted with Father Sosa. (CNS photo/courtesy General Curia of the Society of Jesus)
St. Ignatius ”was a reformer and a better reformer than Luther,” Father Sosa says in this interview with America for the start of the Ignatian Year, because he “obtained reforms without causing division.”
An abortion opponent outside the Jackson Womens Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., on Oct. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
The Supreme Court has put abortion back at the forefront of national debate, writes Charles C. Camosy, but public opinion on the issue may not be what you've been told it is.
Ismael Moreno, S.J., (center) the director of Radio Progreso/Fundación Eric, joins demonstrators in El Progreso, Honduras, protesting the election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez in January 2018. Funding from Canada's Development and Peace agency for his media and human rights ministry had been in doubt. Photo by Kevin Clarke
Canada’s bishops remain committed to the success of Development and Peace “as a Canadian, Catholic organization in communion with the Bishops and the universal Church”
In 1990, Thomas F. O'Meara, O.P., addressed the need for Catholic university faculties of adequate number and quality as well as the problem of educating Roman Catholics in schools largely separate from the numerous Catholic areas and traditions.