I am going to tell you my sad story, the Calvary that I suffered in order to arrive in the UnitedStates of America. It was the Way of the Cross. Everything happened when gangs of delinquents in El Salvador killed my first son, Ignacio, who was 23 years old. It was this painful circumstance that… continue reading
No Federal Funds – What Now?
December 1, 1996 by
Yesterday a staff member from the United States Catholic Conference was almost in tears as she lamented the tremendous loss of welfare funds to Catholic agencies and to the poor because of the new anti-immigration bill which eliminates assistance to legal immigrants not yet citizens. “What are we going to do?” she cried. “Where are… continue reading
Is Immigration Catholic?
December 1, 1996 by
Q.: Are you in favor of immigration? A.: Absolutely not! We oppose undocumented immigration because it destroys families, separates parents and children and ruins marriages. Q.: That doesn’t sound like someone who has had over 30,000 immigrants pass through their doors, does it? A.: We pick up the pieces, as it were. After people are… continue reading
Mrs. Santiago Must Die: The Slope is Slippery
November 1, 1996 by
Dr. Clifton is a Catholic neurosurgeon who works frequently with people who have head injuries or are dying. His wife, Karen, has helped to supply many practical needs for Casa Juan Diego over the years, and currently provides sandwiches for the men on the streets. Mrs. Santiago Mrs. Amy Santiago was 80 years old and… continue reading
Casa Don Bosco Serves Immigrant Teens
November 1, 1996 by
John Bosco was born August 16, 1815. From as early as nine years of age he had a sense of his vocation: to be a friend to youth and to emanate the Love of Christ such that many young people would want to receive this gracious Love. Through many trials of misunderstanding and political jealousies,… continue reading
Heart of the World, Center of the Church: Can CEO’s and Stockholders be Saved?
October 1, 1996 by
Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed either by fire or fire. (T. S. Eliot) How different our world looks today from the Civilization of Love called for by recent… continue reading
Peter Maurin, Saint and Scholar of the Catholic Worker
August 1, 1996 by
This “interview” is what might taken place in such an interview, presenting Peter Maurin’s ideas. Houston Catholic Worker: What do you call your approach? Peter Maurin: Christian personalism, which makes each person responsible for the suffering Christ who stands before him in the person of the poor. It differs dramatically from an economic order characterized… continue reading
Peter Maurin, Saint and Scholar of the Catholic Worker
August 1, 1996 by
The Core Ideas–the Vision The person who created the Catholic Worker philosophy, and in partnership with Dorothy Day, lived the vision of the Catholic Worker movement, is Peter Maurin. Peter Maurin taught Dorothy Day not everything she knew, but just about everything. They met in 1933, Peter having been sent to Dorothy Day by George… continue reading
Saint Therese’s Little Way demands Love in Action
June 1, 1996 by
Loving one Difficult to Love There’s one sister in the community who has the knack of rubbing me up the wrong way at every turn; her tricks of manner, her tricks of speech, her character, just strike me as unlovable. But, then, she’s a holy religious; God must love her dearly; so I wasn’t going… continue reading
