JUSTICE AND PEACE! We are all invited to take notice, think and respond to all justice concerns that surround our lives. Jesus invites us to justice living by the invitation found in the gospels. St. John Baptist De La Salle invites us to justice by asking questions of concern for the children, and those questions are still relevant today. Many of us have been invited and challenged by our friends and families to look at and live justice and peace questions daily. You might be interested in looking at the following websites: www.immigrationpolicy.org & www.darstcenter.org
PRISON MINISTRY – - – AN INTERFAITH ENDEAVOR
Some fifty miles northwest of Chicago in the old town of Woodstock, Illinois, the McHenry County Correctional Facility—a nice way to say “jail”—is the temporary home of an average two hundred men and women who are foreign nationals. These persons have had the misfortune to fall into the hand of ICE, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Homeland Security Administration. In the parlance of the mostly Latino detainees, it is known as “La Migra”.
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Peg Hodapp, Vice President for Mission
De La Salle High School
The hearty group of travelers from DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis, led by Peg Hodapp, Vice President for Mission, departed the Minneapolis airport on Friday, May 27, ready for a six week summer adventure. These 18 travelers made their way to Nairobi, Kenya and found a land and community much different from their own. They were greeted at the airport by four Kenyan Christian Brothers, …