Moving to the Peripheries
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View ArticleFranciscan Cardinal O’Malley on Immigration
The following is written by Cardinal O’Malley and is from The Crux The pastoral visit of Pope Francis to the city of Juarez on the US-Mexican border came at a providential time. The fact of an historic...
View ArticleOrange County Diocese Leading Efforts for Migrants
This article is from the Orange County Register which tends to be more right leaning than the Tower of Pisa. But it describes the worth-while efforts of the diocese. The Catholic Church in California...
View ArticleObama’s Guantánamo Plan
The following is from Take Part Daily. President Obama made what appeared to be a hail Mary pass on Tuesday as he announced, once again, that his administration had prepared a closure plan for the...
View ArticleLegal Rights for Immigrants
The following is from the Daily Journal ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — U.S. policy on detaining immigrants fleeing violence in Central America is unjust, and the federal government’s obsession with...
View ArticleImmigrant Women and Children Welcomed As If They Were Criminals
The following is from NPR (National Public Radio): There are 11.3 million people in the U.S. who have immigrated illegally. And as you have probably heard, the presidential candidates have different...
View ArticleWage Gap Continues to Increase — Take Action!
The following is from the Coalition on Human Needs: Acton steps are at the bottom of the article! A new report confirms what many Americans feel every day: the wage gap between the top and everyone...
View ArticleLower-Income Renters Spend Nearly Half of Income on Rent
The following is from the Coalition on Human Needs: Housing costs traditionally eat up a large portion of most Americans’ budgets. But for lower-income renters, rising housing costs mean even less...
View ArticleUpcoming Event: CA Advocacy Days
May 10th at the State Capitol in Sacramento The following is from PICO: On November 4, 2014, Californians overwhelmingly voted to provide a pathway for 1,000,000 million state residents to reclassify...
View ArticleImmigrants Wait Years for Asylum–Sometimes Behind Bars
The following is from the Los Angeles Times: After federal immigration agents picked up Cesar Matias in late 2012 and began deportation proceedings against him, the Honduran native asked that he be...
View ArticleRecap of Vatican Conference on Nonviolence
The following is from Eli McCarthy at the Conference of Major Superiors of Men: What an amazing experience with so many amazing, courageous, creative, and audacious nonviolent peacemakers! The...
View ArticleDetaining Immigrants for Profit
The following is from the Orange County Register: The American immigration detention system, much like the criminal justice system, has gone unchecked for far too long. Ostensibly predicated on the...
View ArticlePope Gives the U.S. an Example of How to Treat Syrian Refugees
The following is from Crux: About one week after the April 8 release of Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on the family, Amoris Laetitia, it could be said that he offered a sequel to that document...
View ArticleDan Berrigan, SJ
April 30, 2016 Daniel Berrigan, Uncle, Brother, Friend, PRESENTE A statement from the Family of Father Dan Berrigan, SJ: This afternoon around 2:30, a great soul left this earth. Close family missed...
View ArticleA Holistic Vision of Human Flourishing
The following is an article by Br. Keith Warner, OFM Pope Francis fulfilled the promise of his chosen papal name with the publication of Laudato Si’, his encyclical on care of the environment....
View ArticleMontini: Is Sheriff Arpaio back in the workplace-raid business?
The following article is from the Arizona Republic: Welcome back to the bad old days — a time when tempers flared throughout the state, when name-calling was pervasive, when politicians crowed with...
View ArticleHoly Week Foot Washing–Interfaith Center for Worker Justice
The Interfaith Center for Worker Justice organized a march and foot washing for the janitors of San Diego. The event called together religious leaders of various faith traditions and focused on...
View ArticlePope Francis’ Impact on 2016 Voters
The following is from the Philadelphia Inquirer: By Simone Campbell When the Bernie Sanders campaign announced plans to visit the Vatican, more than one journalist asked me for comment on the oddity of...
View ArticleProvincial Letter to President Obama
ESC Provincials signed a letter to President Obama about the Hiroshima and nuclear disarmament: May 9, 2016 Dear President Obama, Your visit to Japan in a few weeks to attend the G-7 Summit presents an...
View ArticleResisting the Notion That Immigrants Are a Threat
The following is from America Magazine: Americans appreciate order. We stand in tidy lines as children at school; exits along the interstate highways have sequential numbers; people stop for red lights...
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