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A Loud Silence: Finding Community at the Vigil for Children Fleeing Violence

On this chilly November evening, Abel Nuñoz, executive director of CARECEN Central American Resource Center, addresses the forty or so people gathered in a circle by the fence of the White House’s backyard. “We have been coming here since July,” he calls into a megaphone. “We came here in t-shirts, with the sun still in the sky. Now it is darker earlier, and colder, but we are here again. And we demand the same things.” A round of applause passes through the small crowd – a diverse group of individuals brought together over the past few months to form a community around the idea of solidarity.
Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD accepts the "Moral Courage Award" on behalf of Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine
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Loyola University Chicago: Living up to our Ideal of a Faith that Does Justice

No, we must not be blinded by the prejudices of our times. We must respond to the faith of the Dreamers with simple fairness. If we failed to do so, we would not be whom we claim to be as a Catholic and Jesuit university. The faith of the Dreamers has called forth our response: “Welcome. Your faith has saved us.””

New Jersey DREAM Act | Great Step Forward But Still Work to Do

For Catalina Adorno, alumna of St. Peter’s University and an organizer of DREAM Act advocacy in New Jersey, the signing of the New Jersey DREAM Act is a great step forward.