Catholic social teaching does not allow us to consider immigration in the abstract; we must recognize that human beings migrate for legitimate reasons.

The saints and heroes of our faith have much to teach us about our contemporary political context.

The failure is not one of communication; it is one of charity. The pope wants us to debate. I say: Do it better.

The earthquake feels like yet another crisis tearing at our transnational families. The earthquake was a natural disaster, but the many ways American society fails to value the lives of foreigners, of immigrants, of its own citizens, because of their skin color or their Latino heritage is a disaster of our own making.

Pope Francis reminds us that we must "cleanse, heal and restore" the sinner, including those returning to society from prisons.

A Colombian Jesuit reflects on the visit of Pope Francis to his country.