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Book The Response of the Catholic Church in the United States to Immigrants and Refugees

Download or read book The Response of the Catholic Church in the United States to Immigrants and Refugees written by C. S. Tomasi and published by . This book was released on 1984-05 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Welcoming the Stranger Among Us

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
  • Publisher : USCCB Publishing
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781574553758
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Welcoming the Stranger Among Us written by Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and published by USCCB Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for both ordained and lay ministers at the diocesan and parish levels, this document challenges us to prepare to receive newcomers with a genuine spirit of welcome.

Book And You Welcomed Me

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  • Author : Donald Kerwin
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2009-10-08
  • ISBN : 0739141015
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book And You Welcomed Me written by Donald Kerwin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings leave their homelands for many reasons and they are called by many names: illegal aliens, strangers, asylum-seekers, displaced persons, economic migrants, lawful permanent residents, refugees, temporary workers, and victims of trafficking. Some are forced to flee because of violence, persecution, natural disaster, or intense economic privation. Most migrate in search of a better life, many as part of a family survival strategy. The movement of people from one place to another has remained a constant feature of human history. In an era characterized by the fast and cheaper movement of goods and services around the globe, migrants are the face of globalization. The world's two hundred million migrants often find themselves at the center of economic, social, and political debates. This book describes the distinctive way in which Catholic social teaching looks at migrants. It analyzes migration from the legal, social science, and cultural perspectives, and gives special consideration to the lived experience of immigrants themselves and their host communities. The book identifies gaps and opportunities to improve government and non-governmental responses to migration on a local, national, and international level. And You Welcomed Me aims to reframe perspectives on migration by focusing on the human beings at the heart of this phenomenon. It analyzes trade, immigration, labor, national security, and integration policies in light of the core Catholic commitment to the common good, human dignity, authentic development, and solidarity.

Book Mercy Without Borders

Download or read book Mercy Without Borders written by Zwick, Mark and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the Zwicks' story, a Catholic Worker story, interwoven with the stories, the joys, hopes, and tragedies of immigrants who have come to Houston, and an impassioned plea for a change in the political and economic forces that drive people to immigrate.

Book Migration for Mission

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  • Author : Mary Johnson S.N.D. de N.
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-02-01
  • ISBN : 0190933119
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Migration for Mission written by Mary Johnson S.N.D. de N. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patterns of migration for the purpose of religious mission are an unexamined dimension of the immigration narrative. Catholic sisters from many countries around the world come to the United States to minister and to study. Sociologists from Trinity Washington University and CARA at Georgetown University combined forces to document and understand this contemporary and historical phenomenon. Together, they located more than 4,000 "international sisters" who are currently in the United States for formation, studies, or ministry, from 83 countries spread over six continents. Through surveys, focus groups, and interviews, they heard the stories of these sisters and learned of their joys and satisfactions as well as their struggles and challenges. This book examines the experience of these sisters in depth and offers valuable suggestions for religious institutes, Catholic dioceses and parishes, and others who benefit from their contributions. More broadly, this book also raises awareness of immigration issues at a time of great contention in the public policy debate in the United States. Illustrated with instructive graphics and tables, it is an accessible and inviting resource for academics and the media, as well as bishops, and leaders of Catholic health care, social service, education, pastoral, and philanthropic institutions.

Book Religion  Ethnicity  and Immigration in the United States

Download or read book Religion Ethnicity and Immigration in the United States written by Faustino Manaligod Cruz and published by . This book was released on 2008* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Today s Immigrants and Refugees

Download or read book Today s Immigrants and Refugees written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Refuge in the Lord

Download or read book Refuge in the Lord written by Lawrence J. McAndrews and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this overarching portrait of three decades of U.S. immigration reform, the author focuses on the roles, on the one hand, of presidents from Reagan to Obama, and on the other, of Catholic immigration advocates, shedding light on the relationship between debates over immigration policy and broader domestic politics"--Provided by publisher.

Book Immigration and the Next America

Download or read book Immigration and the Next America written by Archbishop Jose H. Gomez and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archbishop José Gomez has written a personal, passionate and practical contribution to the national debate about immigration - pointing the way toward a recovery of America's highest ideals. "Immigration is a human rights test of our generation. It's also a defining historical moment for America. The meaning of this hour is that we need to renew our country in the image of her founding promises of universal rights rooted in God. Immigration is about more than immigration. It's about renewing the soul of America."- Archbishop José H. Gomez Archbishop José H. Gomez is one of the leading moral voices in the American Catholic Church. He is the Archbishop of Los Angeles, the nation's largest Catholic community and the Chairman of the United States Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration and a papal appointee to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. Archbishop Gomez is a native of Monterrey, Mexico and a naturalized American citizen.

Book Immigrant Neighbors among Us

Download or read book Immigrant Neighbors among Us written by M. Daniel Carroll R. and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do different Christian denominations in the United States approach immigration issues? In Immigrant Neighbors among Us, U.S. Hispanic scholars creatively mine the resources of their theological traditions to reflect on one of the most controversial issues of our day. Representative theologians from Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Methodist/Wesleyan, Pentecostal, and Independent Evangelical church families show how biblical narratives, historical events, systematic frameworks, ethical principles, and models of ministry shape their traditions' perspectives on immigrant neighbors, law, and reform. Each chapter provides questions for dialogue.

Book This Ground is Holy

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  • Author : Ignatius Bau
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book This Ground is Holy written by Ignatius Bau and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts the development in the United States of the 'sanctuary movement', a loose association of churches which accord refuge and legal and social services to central American refugees. United States immigration and refugee law is succinctly described, with due emphasis given to the 1951 Convention the principle of non-refoulement and the protection required by the 1949 Geneva Red Cross Conventions. The low refugee recognition rate for central Americans is identified as one reason giving rise to the need for extra-statutory refuge. The resulting confrontation between church and state is discribed, with reference to the prosecution and trials of various sanctuary workers. The author also assesses the legal implications for those helping 'illegal' refugees, who may be indicted for harbouring, concealing, shielding from detection or transportation; possible defences are suggested. Three chapters examine the history of sanctuary, as an ancient, biblical tradition; as a privileged refuge established in England in early years in reaction to the practice of blood revenge, and as reflected in elements of United States history, for example, in regard to the 'underground railroad' for fugitive slaves and in various responses to war resisters during the Vietnam period. The author concludes with the suggestion that the authority of the sanctuary novement today is moral, rather than legal; he notes the grassroots origins of the movement and the fact that the beneficiaries today are refugees rather than criminals.

Book Keeping Faith

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  • Author : Jeffrey M. Burns
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2006-09-01
  • ISBN : 1597529087
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book Keeping Faith written by Jeffrey M. Burns and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic Church in the United States has always been an immigrant church, from the earliest arrivals of the Spanish and English, to the influx of Irish, Germans, Italians, and other Europeans in the nineteenth century, to the most recent arrivals from the Philippines and Vietnam. Over two centuries countless laymen and laywomen worked with priests and religious to build and support churches and schools, laying the foundation for the Catholic Church in the United States. The wealth of original documents and photographs in Keeping Faith provides as no other source does a thorough and compelling portrait of these immigrants and their impact on the American Catholic institutions and American Catholic experience.

Book Where We Dwell in Common

Download or read book Where We Dwell in Common written by Gerard Mannion and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ecumenical and interfaith gathering, 'Where We Dwell in Common Pathways for Dialogue in the 21st Century' took place in Assisi in April 2012. This volume presents highlights from this historic gathering and invites readers to become involved as the conversation continues.

Book Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora

Download or read book Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora written by Gemma Tulud Cruz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the Philippines as a powerhouse in the Catholic and global migration landscape. It offers a wide-ranging look at the roles, dynamics, character, and trajectories of Catholic faith and practice in the age of migration through an interdisciplinary, religious, and theological approach to Filipino Catholics’ experience of migration and diaspora both at home and overseas. In so doing, the book introduces the reader to the hallmarks and characteristics of a contextual model of world Christianity and global Catholicism in the twenty-first century.

Book Just Immigration

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  • Author : Mark R. Amstutz
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 2017-05-01
  • ISBN : 1467446785
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Just Immigration written by Mark R. Amstutz and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few issues are as complex and controversial as immigration in the United States. The only thing anyone seems to agree on is that the system is broken. Mark Amstutz offers a succinct overview and assessment of current immigration policy and argues for an approach to the complex immigration debate that is solidly grounded in Christian political thought. After analyzing key laws and institutions in the US immigration system, Amstutz examines how Catholics, evangelicals, and main-line Protestants have used Scripture to address social and political issues, including immigration. He critiques the ways in which many Christians have approached immigration reform and offers concrete suggestions on how Christian groups can offer a more credible political engagement with this urgent policy issue.