We Dominican Sisters support No More Deaths, particularly in their mission to provide humanitarian aid to migrants in the southwest borderlands. Four of their volunteers were recently convicted on what amount to federal “littering” charges and even more...
This is a moral moment in the United States. The government has been partially shutdown for more than twenty days now. People are not receiving paychecks and essential services. A government shutdown is not the way to solve a political disagreement. As more people are...
Today I was reflecting on the scriptures in which Herod, learning from the Magi of the birth of Jesus whom they name New King, is thwarted from his plans to eliminate Jesus. The Magi never return to give him the exact location of the Child. So, in anger, he has all...
On June 30, an estimated crowd of 25,000 gathered in New York City for a National Day of Action to urge Donald Trump and his administration to stop separating kids from their parents. The march, which joined dozen of other cities around the U.S., was held on the...
When Dominican Sister of Hope Lucy Povilonis, O.P. thinks of refugee camps, she thinks of crowded conditions, pockets of people speaking the same dialect, and a unanimous longing for a better life. Unlike many of us who are glued to the news of the crisis at the...
