New Orleans Pope Francis isn’t perfect. None of them are. All the same, it’s hard not to root for the guy, give him an attaboy and hope he pushes the Catholic Church and its parishioners to demand more social justice and social change. The Pope issued something called an apostolic exhortation which is several degrees …
Tag: Refugees
“One of Us” and Fear of the Outsiders
New Orleans Reading the tales of migrants struggling to flee civil wars in the Middle East is becoming a classic definition of the daily downer: unwanted, feared, and shunned. Women fleeing with children seem under constant attack, including sexual abuse. Countries erecting US-like walls and barriers of concertina wire at their boundaries. Even the Nordic …
Climate Refugees
New Orleans This is the moment of Japan. Haiti is still on some of our minds, and living in New Orleans the scars are everywhere and the screams are only barely muffled by the sounds of the streets if your eyes and ears are open to them. A movie called Climate Refugees being offered …