Thousands of caravan migrants now wait in tents at the Benito Juárez Sports Complex in Tijuana, unsure if they will ever be allowed to enter the United States.
Latin America
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Juan Carlos Cruz: the survivor who changed the pope’s mind on sex abuse
Pope Francis dismissed Chilean victims’ allegations as ‘slander’—and then apologized.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I was an American missionary in Honduras. I witnessed firsthand the violence they endure.
In Honduras, paradise and hell are next-door neighbors, and you can hear the gunshots at night from both places.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Brazil turns far-right. What role did religion play in Bolsonaro’s election?
In his first speech after his victory, Brazil’s far-right president-elect thanked God and praised voters for allowing the country to “march now on the right path.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Machado de Assis, the ‘writer’s Catholic writer’
The stories of Machado de Assis let us imagine our way into familiar perspectives and situations from unexpected vantages that enlarge and transform our sense of what is and what can be in this life, and the next.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Why are so many people fleeing Honduras?
“We are living in calamity, a humanitarian crisis in Honduras. Today they left. Tomorrow they will leave…. Three hundred people leave Honduras every day.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Brazil’s new Catholic president promises conservative moral agenda
Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, a Catholic who campaigned to rid the nation of corruption, will take office Jan. 1 with a conservative moral agenda.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I took in a Honduran refugee. It was no big deal—really.
In the “current climate” it has evidently become much easier to hate. But it has also easy to feel self-satisfied about doing the smallest amount of good.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
With help from people and the church in Mexico, refugee caravan pushes on
Many members of the caravan say that the generosity of Mexican citizens helps them keep moving to their destination, the U.S. border still some 1,500 miles to the north.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The ‘crisis’ of the migrant caravan is one of misperception
The real threat to the United States is not the unarmed migrants making a dangerous trek through Mexico, it is the fear and hate that sensationalized coverage of the caravan has fomented.