Crossing Borders: Migration, Theology, and the Human Journey

Dates: October 29; November 5, 12, 19; December 3

Immigration is a complex issue that is reshaping the cultural, economic and political landscape of the planet. Anyone who speaks of simple solutions either does not understand it or is not listening. Each group in the immigration debate makes rightful claims to issues like economic stability, American jobs, cultural integrity, fiscal constraints, National Security, human rights, property rights, labor rights, law and order, and many other issues. Many are divided over this issue precisely because it creates fault lines between many values that are important to us. Finding common ground amidst the fractious debate is not easy, which is the reason why it has become such an incendiary, political issue.

Using books, articles, DVDs, prayer and discussion the Crossing Borders topics are:

• The Contemporary Debate and Public Policy
• History of Migration
• Foundations of Migration – Root Causes
• Migration and Catholic Social Teaching
• Slavery in America
• The Human Face of the Migrant
• Eucharist and a Theology of Migration

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