Of all the things I looked forward to while pregnant with my son, reading books to him was very close to the top of that list.

There is a difference between discriminating against someone because of the group to which he belongs and discriminating against someone on the basis of his actions.

About two-thirds of people born in the United States live in their own homes. Immigrants also have a strong record of homeownership: About half of the 42.3 million foreign-born people in our nation live in their own homes.

Every year, my sister and I take the anniversary of each of our parents’ deaths off and spend it together. We go to the cemetery and to Mass, and gather the memories and the mourning into our arms and hearts for one more year.

Latino men born in 2001 have a 1-in-6 chance of ending up in prison, compared to a 1-in-17 chance for non-Latino white men.

“For Christians, nonviolence is not merely tactical behavior but a person’s way of being.”