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J.D. Long García is a senior editor at America.
Norberto Hernandez, Braylon Howard, Christian Mendoza and Adan Clemente, students at Verbum Dei High School in Los Angeles (photo courtesy Verbum Dei High School).
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
J.D. Long García
Students at Verbum Dei spend four days a week in school and one day a week in a corporate work-study program.
FaithLent Reflections
J.D. Long García
A Reflection for Tuesday of Holy Week, by J.D. Long-García
FaithShort Take
J.D. Long García
When talking about gun control policies, we must center our conversation around the sanctity of human life.
Timothy L. Porter, who in 1964 became the second African American to graduate from Loyola Blakefield, is picture with his family at the schools “Black, Blue and Gold” exhibit, which commemorates Black alumni (photo: Donovan Eaton).
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
J.D. Long García
Kenneth Montague became the first African-American student at Loyola in 1956. He “opened the door for others to follow.”
FaithLent Reflections
J.D. Long García
A Reflection for the Monday of the Second Week of Lent by J.D. Long-García
FaithDispatches
J.D. Long García
When it comes to the “Synod on Synodality” initiated by Pope Francis, Bishop Daniel E. Garcia says we don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
Staff and volunteers join a family arriving from Afghanistan at the Holy Cross Retreat Center in Las Cruces, N.M. (Photo courtesy of Holy Cross Retreat Center)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
“Pope Francis has said to reach out to the margins and help those who are in need, the refugees, the displaced. And we have a retreat center that has lots of space.”
A border encounter. Photo courtesy of Jesuit Refugee Service.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
The limbo experienced by asylum seekers waiting to be admitted to the United States and the traumatic experiences that forced them to leave their home country in the first place take a profound psychological toll.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
Most young Catholics are Latino, but only 17 percent of Catholic students are. This Catholic high school is trying to change that.
FaithShort Take
J.D. Long García
It is appalling to see an organization that claims to be Catholic project pro-abortion messaging onto a structure that celebrates the conception of the Mother of God. What am I supposed to take from this?