How Catholic Charities’ mission and Catholic identity is informing their work on the ground.
Immigration
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
‘Immigrants are not safe here’: I’m ashamed of Staten Island’s hostility to migrants.
To this day, my best friends are people I grew up with on Staten Island. But I am ashamed of how some members of my community have reacted to the recent arrival of migrants.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
As New York’s migrant crisis makes headlines, Catholic Charities gets to work
According to the mayor’s office, more than 104,000 migrants have arrived in New York since the spring of 2022. Many went straight to Catholic Charities for help.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Catholics cannot see immigrants as political pawns
The United States needs to repent and believe. Until then, there will be no justice for immigrants, neither here nor in their home countries.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Can a reform-minded president-elect change Guatemala’s political culture of corruption?
Bernardo Arévalo campaigned on an anti-graft agenda in a contest that many in Guatemala had assumed was rigged from the start against insurgent candidacies.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
‘Push the people back into the water.’ Texas bishops condemn inhumane border policies after leaked email
In an email exchange between a Texas state trooper and his supervisor, the trooper reported receiving orders in encounters with migrating people that he called “inhumane.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Will Europe change course on migration after 600 drown on the Mediterranean?
A policy of deterrence through intentional neglect has not had an impact on migration, but it has resulted in far more losses among migrants and refugees.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Cardinal Dolan: Catholics have a duty to care for immigrants. And the government can’t punish us for that.
The Catholic Church is not a faction of the Republican Party—and Democrats are not the only ones who sometimes view the defense of religious freedom as a pothole instead of a stop sign.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The Titan submersible disaster, migrant crises and what gets global media’s attention
How the international media covers the migration tragedy unfolding in the Atlantic in comparison to coverage of the Titan tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea seems a valid question to probe.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A boat carrying 750 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean. The tragedy reflects a worldwide refugee crisis.
At the end of 2022, according to the United Nations, more than 108 million people worldwide “were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order.” The figure represents an increase of almost 20 million people over 2021.