Jesuits West province requested that GEO, which runs 134 facilities around the world—including 69 detention centers in the United States—“report annually…on how it implements” its human rights policy.
Criminal Justice
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The opioid crisis demands a new solution. Churches are hoping to be part of it
The solution to the “current opioid crisis is one that involves the whole person.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
What happens when a priest is falsely accused of sexual abuse
The story of Chiacgo’s Father Gary Graf illustrates the challenges facing priests who are falsely accused at a time when hundreds of true stories of horrific abuse dominate the news.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
America This Week: April 10, 2019
This week’s guest is Katelyn Beaty. We discuss her article “Why as Christians we need to read widely—and deeply.” We also discuss these articles: America celebrates 110 years of leading the conversation 110 years of America book reviews Father Greg Boyle’s solution to an unjust criminal justice system: radical kinship
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Human rights delegation seeks Vatican support for the decriminalization of homosexuality
The delegates requested that the church declare that “human dignity implies the respect of every person as created by God” and “hence criminalization of L.G.B.T. people is today a manifestation of irrational hatred for that which is different from the norm and that homophobia is, in effect, a feeling of hatred and rejection which the church condemns, wherever it takes place.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Father Greg Boyle’s solution to an unjust criminal justice system: radical kinship
“For Jesus, it wasn’t about taking the right stand on issues. It was about standing in the right place.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Israel has only one halfway house for Palestinians. Its future is in jeopardy.
Israel’s upcoming election, which takes place on April 9, is casting uncertainty over House of Grace’s future.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The difficult questions Catholics need to ask after the college admissions scandal
Asking the question about access to universities overlooks the painful truth that the entire journey of education is profoundly challenging for the poor and people of color.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
After California, the real reason we should end the death penalty—for good.
The most compelling reason not to execute the convicted is an existential one: We humans are not God.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
N.Y. congregation’s concern leads bank to end private prison financing
A campaign by faith-based investors and investment networks, spearheaded by a New York congregation of women religious, led the nation’s largest consumer bank to announce it intended to stop investing in private prison firms.