Billed as an “oasis in the desert,” Holy Cross Retreat Center in the Mesilla Valley south of Las Cruces, New Mexico, hosts retreats, provides spiritual...
Immigration
It’s a warm, sunny day as I prepare my backpack, borrow one of my son’s refillable water bottles, and grab a couple of protein bars. You would be justified in...
The United States’ immigration system is, as Alejandra Oliva writes, “hungry for bodies to suffer.” In her book, Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts The tradition of churches as places of refuge for those in fear of the law goes back centuries. It figures...
In the south Florida city of Homestead, near the Everglades, low-income migrant farmworkers have long labored in area fields. Today, their children face steep...
Haitian refugee Patrick Joseph comes from a country where tropical flowers bloom in a cavalcade of colors. He now lives in Springfield, Ohio, where the dreary...
Across the United States, Claretian Missionaries fostered Spanish-speaking parishes for Latino migrants in working-class neighborhoods. Claretians put these...
On Tuesday, September 9, residents of Rochester, New York showed up en masse at a neighborhood home where immigration enforcement officers had detained a...
Superman Directed by James Gunn (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2025) With the release of a new Superman film, directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as...
On June 17, 2025, Holy Family Parish, a Catholic Church in Gaza, was struck by an Israeli shell that killed three people and injured several others. This...








