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The failure of current immigration policies in the United States has resulted in dire consequences: a significant increase in border deaths, a proliferation of smuggling networks, prolonged family separation, inhumane raids, a patchwork of local ordinances criminalizing activities of immigrants and those who harbor them, and the creation of an underclass?none of which are appropriate or just outcomes for those holding Christian commitments. Kinship Across Borders analyzes contemporary US immigration in the context of fundamental Christian beliefs about the human person, sin, family life, and g

The United States was founded on a commitment to religious tolerance. Based on this commitment, it has become one of the most religiously diverse and religiously observant liberal democracies in the world. Inherent in this political reality is the question, What is the appropriate relationship between religious beliefs and public life? This is not a new question, but in contemporary U.S. politics it has become a particularly insistent one. In this intelligent, wide-ranging book, Kristin Heyer provides new and nuanced answers.Prophetic and Public employs the discourse of public theology to cons

The United States was founded on a commitment to religious tolerance. Based on this commitment, it has become one of the most religiously diverse and religiously observant liberal democracies in the world. Inherent in this political reality is the question, What is the appropriate relationship between religious beliefs and public life? This is not a new question, but in contemporary U.S. politics it has become a particularly insistent one. In this intelligent, wide-ranging book, Kristin Heyer provides new and nuanced answers. Prophetic and Public employs the discourse of public theology to cons

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Basic human rights reflected in international rights regimes and presupposed in Catholic social ethics are universal in theory, yet in practice their exercise depends upon legally sanctioned membership in a political community. This gap between the normativity of the dignity of the migrant and the practical denial of their rights is maintained by (1) standard paradigms for analysing migration and (2) a related neglect of structural injustices that facilitate rights violations. The Catholic tradition's social anthropology, understanding of social sin, and commitment to a global common good are poised to reorient responsibility for irregular migration beyond individuals who cross borders or overstay visas alone.

The possibilities for taking theological ethics 'public' have taken on added significance amidst debates over the nature of moral norms. If realist theological ethics can find a public voice, it will enhance the prospects for interreligious ethical collaboration & the place of theology in it. A key question remains whether particular contexts of religious symbols render them meaningful only within communities of 'origin', or particularity actually enables broadly compelling meaning or a public voice for theology. At issue in the Tracy-Lindbeck debate are their understandings of 'public', their responses to philosophical anti-foundationalism, & their theological presuppositions. While postliberal emphases on the distinctiveness of the Christian community & attention to the ecclesial community complement Tracy's emphases on dialogue & coherence, Tracy's recent methods provide more adequate responses to the challenges posed by postmodernism. 26 References. Adapted from the source document.

In 2009, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)—an organization representing 300 orders of sisters in the United States—suddenly gained wide attention following a critical doctrinal assessment issued by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Many became interested in the way the LCWR and its members exercised leadership. One of their members described it as "transformational leadership"—a "way-of-being-in-in-the-world." To better understand this way of leadership, LCWR regularly conducts interviews with some of the most engaging and passionate of contemporary thinkers.In this volume, interviews with eighteen theologians, psychologists, educators, and religious leaders from various fields and disciplines share their wisdom about a way of leadership able to meet the deep challenges of today's world. Transformational Leadership offers the opportunity to learn from notables such as Walter Brueggemann, Judy Cannato, Joan Chittister, OSB, Constance FitzGerald, OCD, Donald Goergen, OP, Marty Linsky, and Margaret Wheatley.In 2009, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)—an organization representing 300 orders of sisters in the United States—suddenly gained wide attention following a critical doctrinal assessment issued by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Many became interested in the way the LCWR and its members exercised leadership. One of their members described it as "transformational leadership"—a "way-of-being-in-in-the-world." To better understand this way of leadership, LCWR regularly conducts interviews with some of the most engaging and passionate of contemporary thinkers.In this volume, interviews with eighteen theologians, psychologists, educators, and religious leaders from various fields and disciplines share their wisdom about a way of leadership able to meet the deep challenges of today's world. Transformational Leadership offers the opportunity to learn from notables such as Walter Brueggemann, Judy Cannato, Joan Chittister, OSB, Constance FitzGerald, OCD, Donald Goergen, OP, Marty Linsky, and Margaret Wheatley. ; https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/1011/thumbnail.jpg

Introduction : law and theology in the age of migration / Silas W. Allard -- Exclusion, admission, and deportation : categorical evolution and normative challenges / Daniel Kanstroom -- The institutionalization of inequality : lower-skilled and undocumented workers in immigration law / Enid Trucios-Haynes -- In defense of chain migration / Bill Ong Hing -- The state of the law on refugees, asylees, and stateless persons / Michele R. Pistone -- Borders : sites of exclusion, sites of engagement / Silas W. Allard -- Immigrant integration and disintegration in an era of exclusionary nationalism / Donald M. Kerwin Jr. -- True faith, allegiance, and citizenship / Rose Cuison Villazor -- Different kinds of foreignness : the Hebrew Bible's terminology for foreigners / Safwat Marzouk -- Embrace, ambivalence, and theoxenia : new testament perspectives on hospitality to strangers / Raj Nadella -- Toward a theology of migration / Luis N. Rivera-Pagán -- When the poor knock on our door : a theological response to unwanted migration / Gemma Tulud Cruz -- The theopolitics of the migrant : toward a coalitional and comparative political theology / Ulrich Schmiedel -- Migration, social responsibility, and moral imagination : resources from Christian ethics / Kristin E. Heyer -- No more deaths : religious liberty as a defense for providing sanctuary for immigrants / Rose Cuison Villazor and Ulrich Schmiedel -- A vision of integration rooted in hospitality / Donald M. Kerwin Jr.and Safwat Marzouk -- Labor, inequality, and globalization : legal and theological perspectives on vulnerable migrant workers / Gemma Tulud Cruzand Enid Trucios-Haynes -- Empire, displacement, and the Central American refugee crisis / Bill Ong Hingand Raj Nadella -- Empathy, legitimacy, faith, and the dangerously uncertain future of migration / Kristin E. Heyerand Daniel Kanstroom.

Catholic political identity and engagement defy categorization. The complexities of political realities and the human nature of such institutions as church and government often produce a more fractured reality than the pure unity depicted in doctrine. Yet, in 2003 under the leadership of then-prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a Doctrinal Note on Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life. The note explicitly asserts, The Christian faith is an integral unity, and thus it is incoherent t

International scholars from different disciplines examine the experiences of unaccompanied migrant children before, throughout, and after their journeys and analyze US and European policy changes in national and international law. Several theologians explore new approaches to a Catholic social ethics of child migration.