Cardinal Sean O’Malley on Our Broken Immigration System

The full text (via the Archdiocese of Boston) of Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s homily at the #BorderMass for immigrants and immigration reform earlier today is below. Cardinal O’Malley and his brother bishops are right: our current immigration system is a moral calamity that denies aspiring Americans their rights and dignity as children of God. Scripture tells… Read More Cardinal Sean O’Malley on Our Broken Immigration System

A Hopeful Future Seen at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice 2013

If you want to get excited about the future of the Church, I recommend attending the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice next year, the annual event organized by the Ignatian Solidarity Network. This year’s event featured an array of interesting organizations, speakers, and break-out sessions. What impressed me most, however, was the remarkable group of… Read More A Hopeful Future Seen at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice 2013

Nichole Flores in America: Seeing migrant women through the eyes of Christ

Millennial writer Nichole Flores has a new article in America that addresses the issue of sexual violence in the agriculture industry, along with other threats to human dignity and rights: “The rape of migrant women is but one violation of workers’ rights and human dignity common in U.S. agricultural fields. Undocumented women and men are… Read More Nichole Flores in America: Seeing migrant women through the eyes of Christ

The Bishops: Right on Immigration, Wrong on Immigration Reform

The Bishops Take a Stand Left-leaning Catholics are used to being disappointed: disappointed by the Republican Party, for its apparent indifference to the economic travails of the working class; disappointed by the Democratic Party, for its slow but steady drift away from a big tent approach and toward the same with-us-or-against-us culture war mentality on… Read More The Bishops: Right on Immigration, Wrong on Immigration Reform