This week’s guest is Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu, a contributing writer for America and professor of theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Her latest piece for America is titled: “A 3-question examination of conscience on immigration that all Catholics need to do.” Prof. Gonzalez-Andrieu told America about her first hand-experience working with undocumented students at […]
Immigration
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A 3-question examination of conscience on immigration that all Catholics need to do
Catholics are called to act and to equip ourselves with truth-telling tools to transform the polemics of immigration into a grace-filled response to human suffering.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Jesuit groups call Trump’s border wall a distraction as migrants suffer
Poverty and criminal violence are pushing hundreds of thousands of people northward while escalated deportations are tearing families apart in the United States.
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Find ways to keep migrant families together, Vatican official says
“The migrant family is a crucial component of our globalized world,” said Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva.
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Bishop says President Trump’s immigration proposals do not reflect U.S. tradition
Trump’s new immigration policy proposals “are not reflective of our country’s immigrant past, and they attack the most vulnerable.”
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Poverty, violence hinder progress for many women, girls, says Vatican’s UN representative
Conditions in many parts of the world force women and girls to bear the burden of carrying out everyday chores for their families and communities, keeping many of them from getting even a basic education, the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio said Oct. 6.
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Caring for the most vulnerable: undocumented women in abusive relationships
Undocumented women face special challenges when they report domestic abuse, but they now have a champion in Pope Francis
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What would Martin Luther say about today’s migrant and refugee crises?
We need to revisit the views of this 16th-century reformer on hospitality now more than ever.
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Here’s what we are supposed to believe about immigration as Catholics
Catholic social teaching does not allow us to consider immigration in the abstract; we must recognize that human beings migrate for legitimate reasons.
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Catholic leaders press for Dream Act as DACA deadline looms
Congress has until March 5 to pass legislation to help immigrants who are currently shielded from deportation by the program.