On All Souls’ Day, Michael Petro explores what it has meant for him to publicly grieve a person he never met.

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Michael is a scholastic from the USA East province studying social philosophy and theology at Loyola University Chicago. A proud New Englander, he was born and raised in the Boston area. Michael studied Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University. As a Jesuit he has loved serving in migrant parishes and service centers, as a chaplain for the elderly, and thinking and teaching about social justice. In his free time, Michael enjoys practicing his Arabic, thinking up projects, and sailing.
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2 postsDear President Biden, End Title 42
On the eve of World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Michael Petro, SJ, reminds the President that “in the stranger we actually meet our neighbor”