Accusing Catholic Charities of having a “profit motive,” the talking heads of Fox News showed a misunderstanding of the agency’s essential role in providing social services, writes Kevin Clarke.
Refugees
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Thousands have been displaced by violence in Mozambique. Catholics say what’s needed is aid—not outside troops.
Educators and humanitarian workers in Mozambique are expressing mixed feelings about a deployment of multinational forces to confront an intensifying Islamist insurgency in Mozambique.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Bishop Seitz meets with Kamala Harris at the border, gives a rosary blessed by Pope Francis
Bishop Mark J. Seitz and other immigration advocates were there to welcome Vice President Kamala Harris.
Posted inCatholic News Quiz, Faith
Quiz: Which pope said it? Roman pontiffs on the rights of refugees
This year, as we observe World Refugee Day, America Magazine is testing our readers’ knowledge of papal refugee statements.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Meet the Catholic sister who is willing to risk her life (again) to stop the violence in Myanmar
Sister Nu Tawng describes a nation living in fear of its own government, where arrest may come at any time or for any reason.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Refugees have a right to stay in their homelands, too. How can we make it safer for them to do so?
The right to emigrate is central to of Catholic social teaching, but we often neglect the right to live safely in one’s own land. We must help people to stay and build better countries for themselves.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Migrants and refugees are victims of ‘cancel culture.’ The only antidote: authentic encounter.
If “canceling” is a means of banishing to the shadows something that causes discomfort that is precisely what we are doing to migrants at our border.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Bishop Dorsonville: The Catholic Church believes in family unity. That includes the children at the border.
Refugees are often seen through a political lens, writes Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, but the crisis at the Mexico border should remind us of the church’s essential ministry to those fleeing violence and poverty.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Refugee resettlement has a political cost. It is still worth paying.
Though an about-face by the Biden administration brought welcome news to advocates for refugee resettlement, the process raised concerns about the political calculus at work.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Czerny remembers famous Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty on 46th anniversary of his death
“The 1950s were a time of recovery, the beginning of prosperity in the West,” Cardinal Czerny told the congregation, among whom were Hungarian clergy and laity, and diplomats from other countries. “There was even hope of new freedom in the Communist world