U.S. and Mexican bishops urged “the administration to reverse this policy, which needlessly increases the suffering of the most vulnerable and violates international protocols.”
Mexico
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How can we transform the U.S.-Mexico border? Opportunity zones.
Forget the antiquated concept of walls. Opportunity zones can secure the border while providing economic opportunity to both workers and investors.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Mexico stays neutral in Venezuela crisis, calls for international summit
Mexico’s call for a summit is the latest twist in a crisis that continues to divide the world after Venezuela’s embattled socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, was sworn in for a second term.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What is Candlemas—and who is making the tamales this year?
Mexican Catholics commemorate the day Mary and Joseph presented the Lord in the temple by bringing statues of the Child Jesus to Mass. And afterward: tamales.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Sister Norma Pimentel welcomes President Trump during border visit
“We witness daily how, working together, people of all faiths can focus on helping the person in front of us,” Sister Pimentel, the executive director of Catholic Charities in the Rio Grande Valley, wrote in an op-ed addressed to the president yesterday in The Washington Post.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
In an overcrowded Tijuana shelter, asylum seekers from Central America begin a long wait
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Roma’ is a sumptuous tribute to a serene and holy caregiver
There is a richness to “Roma” that will likely take multiple viewings to absorb. Every gesture is revealing; every image is a window.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
You have to visit the border to understand the migrant caravan
For Sister Norma Pimentel, who has worked on the U.S.-Mexico border for decades, migration is not a political issue; it is a human issue.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Humanitarian groups at U.S.-Mexico border prepare for the migrant caravan
Catholic aid groups are among those preparing for migrants fleeing violence in Central America—and who may face a U.S. border slammed shut to asylum seekers.
Posted inFaith
What is left of the Christian community in Iraq?
Our October 24 guest is Kevin Clarke. We talk to him about his recent reporting from Iraq, which you can read here. We also discuss these stories: The migrant caravan through the eyes of Catholic Social Teaching Synod Fathers: young people must be welcomed, but also welcomed What’s it like being the only female cleric […]