Welcoming and Integrating Immigrants and Refugees
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Fair Labor & Farm Workers
JustLove covers topics surrounding fair labor standards and farm workers with guests Librada Paz, Mexican-American activist for the rights of farm workers and Board Member of Rural & Migrant Ministry, Inc. and Sachin Pandya, J.D., Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut. On the show, Pandya speaks with Monsignor about changes in the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations. While Paz talks with Monsignor about the 2016 March for Farm Worker Justice.
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CatholicCare and Creating Opportunities for Refugees
On this week’s episode of JustLove, Monsignor Sullivan speaks with two guest whose work focuses on refugees. Hear Wissam Kahi, Co-Founder and COO of Eat Offbeat, a food service that delivers ethnic meals prepared by resettled refugees. And also listen to Joe Caddy, CEO of CatholicCare Sydney talk about disadvantaged refugee communities in Melbourne, Australia.
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Catholic Charities of Indianapolis Provides Help to Syrian Refugee Family
View image | gettyimages.com Allow me to express solidarity with Catholic Charities of Indianapolis and their careful, compassionate and steadfast decision to resettle one Syrian refugee family despite opposition by the Governor of Indiana. See story
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Listen To Learn About Current Migration Issues and Religious Freedom
Monsignor Sullivan focuses JustLove on current migration issues. On the show, Dr. Katrina Lantos Sweet, Commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom talks about the correlation between religious freedom, stability and security. Susan Mary Weishar, Migration Specialist/Research Fellow at the Jesuit Social Research Institute talks about how refugees are vetted for resettlement to the U.S.
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Listen to JustLove This Week to Hear About Catholic Charities Unaccompanied Minors Program and the Emergence of Multicultural Parishes
On this week’s show, hear Monsignor Kevin Sullivan speaks with Margaret Martin, the Supervising Attorney of Catholic Charities Community Service’s Unaccompanied Minors Program and its response to the recent border crisis. Also on the show is Hosffman Ospino, Assistant Professor of Theology and Education at Boston College, School of Theology and Ministry. On the show they discuss the emergence of multicultural parishes and how parishes are adjusting to in the increase of Hispanic parishioners.