Luis Donaldo González

Migration in the Americas was one of the conference's key topics because it is a fundamental pastoral need shared throughout the continent, said conference organizer and University of San Diego professor Victor Carmona. 

At an event focused on synodality in America, Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny emphasized that the massive deportation of undocumented migrants would be incompatible with Catholic doctrine.

At an annual meeting in Indianapolis, Hispanic ministry leaders said the challenge in reaching this diverse group is a responsibility for the whole church, not just those involved in this ministry.
 

Nuevo Momento is a unique initiative designed to strengthen the work and leadership of 15 Catholic organizations that have had a high ministerial impact with Hispanic Catholics at the local or national level.

As co-director for leadership development of Strangers No Longer, Sr. Martha de la Torre Juárez creates circles of support and provides spiritual accompaniment to immigrant women in the state of Michigan.

The model put forth by members of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States should lead the church to become an ever larger tent — a church that welcomes, promotes and integrates everyone.

"Accompanying the Indigenous people and listening to their dreams has been a reaffirmation of my vocation," says Sr. Zully Rojas Quispe, provincial of the Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary in Peru.

The legacy of 17th-century Spanish Jesuit Diego de Pantoja shows "it is possible to build peaceful bridges of dialogue and collaboration between civilizations," says film director Fr. Jesús Folgado García.

On the streets of Mexico, Catholic sisters and lay missionaries pay weekly visits to "chavos banda," youth gangs who are not affiliated with drug cartels. They offer direction and companionship to the young gang members.