The “transportation prison” is trapping more and more people in the United States.
Social Justice
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Hidden Hunger in New York City
This week, photojournalist Joey O’Loughlin talks to Tim Reidy and Matt Malone, S.J., about her photo project, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Portraits of Hunger in NYC.” She explains that many people who rely on food banks work multiple jobs, and the food banks are a vital lifeline when they can’t afford groceries. If you’re based […]
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Pope Francis on feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe: ‘Yes to life, no to exclusion’
In his homily for the feast, Pope Francis denounced the exclusion of so many people “from the train of life.”
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Catholic tradition meets Native American spirituality at Dakota Pipeline protest.
The camps of the Dakota protest are places of spiritual education, challenge and growth.
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Genocide, crucifixion and rape: What Christians are facing in the Middle East
“I am very aware that my ethnicity is dying.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Iraq Devastation
The Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan said he was horrified to see widespread devastation and what he called “ghost towns” during a recent visit to northern Iraq. He said by email that there was little left in some of the communities that he toured on Nov. 27-29 and that
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Hidden homelessness spikes in a high rent New York
New Yorkers can be forgiven if they believed homelessness were a problem consigned to the past.
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Jesuits: Models of reconciliation for a world in need of mercy
In a world of conflict, deeply in need of the mercy frequently implored by Pope Francis, Jesuits can be agents of reconciliation and dialogue, the Society’s new superior general said in an exclusive interview with America.Arturo Sosa, S.J., elected on Oct. 14 superior general for the Society o
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A pledge to protect ‘Dreamers’
Presidents of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities pledged themselves to “protect to the fullest extent of the law undocumented students on our campuses” and to “promote retention of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program” in a statement released on Nov. 30. The pr
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Post-Castro Church
Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami was one of the first Catholic Church officials to respond on Nov. 26 after the death of Fidel Castro. “The death of this figure should lead us to invoke the patroness of Cuba, the Virgin of Charity, calling for peace for Cuba and its people,” he said