Finding Hope Through Reconciliation
"Everyone who has changed countries or remembers the migration of parents or grandparents has unique and often very visceral family memories of this universal human experience."...
20
Aug
Cardinal Michael Czerny S.J. was the Founding director of the African Jesuit AIDS Network 2002-2010, and is now Under-Secretary, Migrants and Refugees Section, https://migrants-refugees.va/
32 posts
15
Feb
In This Time of COVID-19, Young People Respond to Migrants and Refugees
“The pandemic has put us all in crisis,” the Holy Father says. “But let us remember that after a crisis a person is not the same. We come out of it better, or we come out of it worse. This is our option.” ...
04
Feb
The Pope of Rome, the Grand Imam of Cairo, and the Official World Day of Fraternity
". . . the celebration “responds to a clear call that Pope Francis has been making to all humanity to build a present of peace in the encounter with the other.""...
09
Jan
Happy New Year of Care
"Paraphrasing Pope Francis’s homily on the first day of the new year, 2021 will be a good year only if we start taking care of each other and of our common home. "...
16
Oct
Cardinal Czerny on Fratelli Tutti: “A Warning and A Call to Hope”
?Pope Francis has published a new thoughtful document - a letter addressed to all faithful and even to all men and women of good faith - on human fraternity. We asked one of his close collaborators, Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, to tell us about the meaning of this major document"....
13
Jan
Courage
Recently, Cardinal Czerny - along with other Jesuits - was asked to write about courage. His article is today's post....
16
Nov
30th Anniversary of the Salvador Martyrs.
"Martyrdom is the grace with which God seals and accepts a whole life of often ordinary, hidden commitment, service, and transforms it into the root meaning of the word “martyr”: - witness." ...
26
Sep
25
May
Catholics are (not) responding.
"Pope Francis shows compassion for people’s real fears – and he includes the fears both of local communities and of migrants; the fears of one group should not be played off against the fears of another more vulnerable group."...
16
Nov
Anniversary of the San Salvador Martyrs
"On 16 November 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were assassinated on the campus of the University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador, as ordered by the country’s High Command. "...