Topic: Racism
Deporting the Heart
September 17, 2014 ·
September 15, 2014 Daniel G. Groody Unaccompanied child migrants and the globalization of indifference ere is a story, often quoted in church circles, about a man who lived near a river. One morning he went to get some water and saw a body floating downstream. He dove in, rescued the body, pulled it to shore and […]
Read More...NELSON MANDELA, CHAMPION OF PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
December 16, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen What made Nelson Mandela the most famous and revered leader world-wide, and perhaps the most respected leader in history was his unshakable commitment to human rights and dignity. He inspired his nation as a political prisoner for 27 years under the apartheid white minority regime of South Africa and he stood by his […]
Read More...SKIN WHITENERS DAMAGE PEOPLE AND NATIONAL DIGNITY
August 2, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen, Mssc Imagine the scene in a charity clinic where a teenager was brought threatening suicide. Barbara, 17 years old, was crying out in her anguish, beating her clenched fists on the table and screaming, “I can’t live with a face like this, I am better off dead, dead”. She wailed and […]
Read More...2013,The year without fear ?
January 3, 2013 ·
2013: The year without fear? By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite Members of the Sikh community hold a candlelight vigil outside Newtown High School before an interfaith vigil with President Barack Obama, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (Jason DeCrow – AP) We are not going to be able to address a gun culture that makes […]
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