December 16, 2011
by John Zmirak
This essay first appeared at Insidecatholic.com (now Crisis) August 26, 2008. It is part of today's symposium of lay Catholic opinion on immigration. For other contributions see this piece by Mark and Louise Zwick, this one by Christopher Manion, and this news report from Zenit. For Deal Hudson's view, see this article in The American [...]
November 26, 2011
by Roy Beck
The mainstream news media is filled with awe that Newt Gingrich showed some "compassion" for illegal aliens in the recent GOP presidential debate. A look at his record while in Congress shows this is nothing new. In fact, Gingrich's leadership in Congress is one of the reasons we have so many illegal aliens today [...]
October 20, 2010
by Arturo Vasquez
With apologies to Christine O'Donnell, I am not you. I didn't grow up in places where Mexicans were a distant if ominous threat. I can't say that I came of age only speaking English, that I feel totally grounded in this country (even though I was born here), or that I never helped anyone who [...]
August 26, 2008
by John Zmirak
Sometimes the Church's public face in a given country can make you proud, and sometimes it has to make you a little sick. American Catholics can justly take satisfaction that our bishops were almost alone in beginning the fight against abortion; the Southern Baptist Conference, of all things, at first backed Roe v. Wade, and [...]