by Brian Strassburger, SJ | Oct 11, 2019 | Faith & Politics, Global Catholicism, Immigration, Justice ~ Approx. 7 mins
[This is a response to an article written by Daniel Mascarenhas, S.J. on September 30th titled “Should A Catholic Support the Border Wall?”] Should a Catholic support the border wall? If all we are talking about is a border wall, we are missing the main problem. The...
by Marco Machado, SJ | Oct 9, 2019 | Blogs, Immigration, Justice, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
Migrants from many different places come to the desert in Nogales, Arizona looking for a way to provide for their families. They come running away from their beloved homeland because crime, unemployment, and lack of opportunities have made their lives unbearable. Many...
by Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ | Sep 30, 2019 | Faith & Politics, Global Catholicism, Immigration, Justice ~ Approx. 5 mins
The Bible asks me to welcome the stranger. My dad, however, always told me to lock the doors at night. The Bible often exhorts to go above and beyond our duty of giving to others what is due and invites us to love God’s people. However, we still lock our doors at...
by David Inczauskis, SJ | Jan 9, 2019 | Immigration ~ Approx. 4 mins
About 15,000 more Hondurans are preparing to leave San Pedro Sula in a migrant caravan on January 15, 2019. Like others before them, they will journey through Guatemala and Mexico to the US border. I recently sat down to discuss the phenomenon with Iolany Pérez, the...
