On Thursday night, November 20, 2014, President Barack Obama announced his executive action limiting deportations of undocumented immigrants to the most...
Activism
Discover how Catholics put faith into action through activism, community organizing, and movements for social and political transformation.
By Jim Forest (Orbis, 2014) Jesus’ commandment to love our enemies might be the hardest to follow. It is a transformational directive that is at the...
Though his critics persist, Óscar Romero’s martyrdom has finally been recognized. Just before Robert White was dispatched as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador in...
We can borrow Vincent de Paul’s tough questions about how to best help those most in need. Turn away from the new iPhone and toward your neighbor. This is the...
c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) The Moral Monday movement, birthed by activists who protest the actions of the North Carolina General...
Should a librarian have any less of a right to unionize than an auto worker or a nurse? In 1981 my grandmother, a librarian, became a union organizer. The...
Immigrants may seem like a powerless population, but community organizer Ana Garcia-Ashley believes that together they can be a force for positive change. As a...
By Sister Simone Campbell, S.S.S. (HarperOne, 2014) Sister of Social Service Simone Campbell offers an exhilarating narrative of her remarkable life journey to...
If a community wants things to change, sometimes they have to be willing to get together and track mud on the carpets of city hall. While growing up in the...
Directed by Diego Luna (Lionsgate, 2014) If you’re old enough to remember the United Farm Workers (UFW) grape boycotts that began in 1965, stretching...
