The author of “The Sympathizer” has a new book of short stories about Vietnamese-Americans who do not fit stereotypes.
Immigration
Posted inFaith, Features
What happens when a family of refugees is invited to live with a community of Jesuits?
An Ethiopian family arrived in Malta as refugees. A Jesuit community welcomed them.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
On immigration, founding charisms can guide Catholic schools
College charisms are not relics but principles for an age of political uncertainty.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
An opportunity lost: What Catholics actually wanted to hear at Mass last weekend
80 percent of poll respondents agreed that not enough was done in their parishes to address the ongoing political upheaval.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A Watergate veteran on a Nixonian moment for President Trump
Philip A. Lacovara noticed some similarities to his epic experience more than 43 years ago during Watergate’s infamous Saturday Night Massacre
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
America, be beautiful: To love our nation does not mean to love it blindly
We have not loved our nation in spite of its flaws—too often we have covered over those flaws and allowed them to grow.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Once accepted, now denied, Syrian refugees in Jordan frustrated with Trump action
Trump’s action slapped a 90-day ban on all entry to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries with terrorism concerns.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Responding to Trump’s ban, top Catholic bishops pledge solidarity with Muslim refugees
“The bond between Christians and Muslims is founded on the unbreakable strength of charity and justice.”
Posted inFaith
“I was a stranger and you did not welcome me.”
It is Christ whom we turn away when we build walls.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
President Trump’s crackdown on sanctuary cities is un-American, Newark cardinal says
Cardinal Tobin: “Closing borders and building walls are not rational acts…. Mass detentions and wholesale deportation benefit no one; such inhuman policies destroy families and communities.”