Lent is a season of reflection—but also a season to prepare for the work ahead, to sweep aside everything that has not worked and find new ways through the desert.
From family separations to border walls to mass deportations, anti-immigrant vitriol has been at the heart of Donald Trump's political career. It must be resisted at every step.
The Trump administration hopes not only to deport migrants, but also to make them feel so unsafe they no longer participate actively in our communities.
"Ramos and Baldelomar speak as if Latino identity were currently diseased. But our history, while indeed plagued by some bad ideas, is also full of antibodies."
Highlighting the link between family unity and immigration might be a way to sway the hearts of conservative Catholics who’ve fallen for Trump’s vile claims against immigrants.
Philip Metres’s newest collection of poetry speaks as eloquently as ever against empire—but he grounds the writing in this book in his own family’s story and history.
For filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, Pope Francis is a revolutionary, a man who calls on us to imagine a better world. But being a revolutionary comes with loneliness.
Thieves, bandits, terrorists, freedom fighters, or revolutionaries: who were the ‘thieves’ crucified with Jesus? It depends on who’s labeled, and doing the labeling.
During Lent, we work to move with more determination toward our place of ultimate belonging. We have heard stories of that kingdom that cannot be un-heard.
El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz speaks with Commonweal about his meeting with Joe Biden—and what leaders in Washington need to know about the reality on the border.
An essential new memoir conveys the fundamental emotions behind child migration—love and longing, loss and trauma—from the perspective of a young Salvadoran boy.
