The earthquake feels like yet another crisis tearing at our transnational families. The earthquake was a natural disaster, but the many ways American society fails to value the lives of foreigners, of immigrants, of its own citizens, because of their skin color or their Latino heritage is a disaster of our own making.
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Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Hispanic Heritage Month raises questions about identity for Latino Catholics
“It is good to rediscover our history and welcome the diversity of the people in the United States.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pass a Dream Act, but don’t sacrifice the parents
The fight for the Dreamers is a fight for every immigrant.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
California priest who ministers to children of migrant workers wins Lumen Christi Award
A Catholic priest is being recognized for his efforts to support California’s migrant farmworker community.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Why don’t today’s farmworkers remember Dolores Huerta?
Huerta’s lack of recognition is certainly not due to a lack of proximity to power; she stood alongside giants of American history.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The U.S. Catholic experience is increasingly Hispanic and Southwestern
Back in 1991, close to nine in 10 Catholics in the United States were white. Today, that number is down to 55 percent—and that percentage will continue to drop.
Posted inArts & Culture
Santa Fe: a powerful metaphor for the Latino church in the United States
Latin American towns, like their exemplars in Spain, reflect in their organization the way the inhabitants lived together as a people.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio is part of a long history of discrimination
The sheriff is the personification of law enforcement behaving lawlessly.
Posted inFaith, News
The next bishop of Raleigh is from Latin America—like many in his flock
To say that Hispanics in the diocese take pride in their newly appointed bishop is an understatement.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
50 years ago a man told my mother, “Go home, spic.” Would that happen today?
I want to believe things are better now for immigrants, but I fear things are getting worse.