by Danilo Mendoza Rugama, SJ | Dec 1, 2022 | Current Events, Global Catholicism, Immigration, Spirituality, The Jesuits ~ Approx. 7 mins
Imagine the following scene: On a Thursday morning around 10:00 am, a steel blue Nissan Terrano 4×4 parks in front of a small gray gate. Inside the car you can see me and my five friends. We are six Sub-Saharan African children 5 and 6 years old crammed in the...
by Myles Kelley, SJ | Nov 9, 2021 | Current Events, Immigration, The Jesuits ~ Approx. 4 mins
This summer, I spent 7 weeks in Nogales, a town straddling the border between the U.S. and Mexico volunteering at Kino Border Initiative. On my first visit to “the other side,” I was greeted with an impressive building just a few yards away from the USA/Mexico Port of...
by Michael Petro, SJ | Sep 25, 2021 | Discerning Citizenship, Faith & Politics, Immigration, Justice, The Jesuits ~ Approx. 4 mins
Dear President Biden, As a young Jesuit, I write to you gravely troubled by the way your administration is treating asylum seekers. As the Church celebrates this National Migration Week, my heart is weighed down by the many families waiting in a perilous limbo on our...
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 Ken Homan, SJ | Sep 29, 2019 | One-Minute Homily ~ Approx. 1 min
Jesus gives us a warning not to neglect the poor through the story of Lazarus and the rich man. Br. Ken Homan, SJ, reminds us to keep this in mind with migrants and refugees in this week’s One-Minute Homily. Prepared for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees...
