- Protecting & Nurturing Children & Youth, Strengthening Families and Resolving Crises, Welcoming and Integrating Immigrants and Refugees
Providing Help and Hope to Families at the Border and a Review on the Summer Solstice
On this week’s episode of JustLove, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about the separation of families at the border and he also talks about the Summer Solstice. Kenneth Ferrone, Executive Director of Catholic Charities of Southern New Mexico, talks to Msgr. Sullivan about the help that Catholic Charities of Southern New Mexico is providing to detained parents and their children on our southern border. Kenneth also talks about the situation with a locally detained Guatemalan asylum seeker who recently contacted Catholic Charities of Southern New Mexico about his 7-year-old daughter who was separated from him by immigration enforcement agents only to be transferred to a detention facility in New York. Catholic…
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JustLove’s Look at Puerto Rico’s Recovery from Hurricane Maria and Ireland’s Vote to Repeal the 8th Amendment
On this week’s episode of JustLove, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about Puerto Rico and Ireland’s 8th Amendment Vote. The Honorable Yesmin M. Valdivieso, CPA, Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, speaks with Msgr. Sullivan about the current situation on the island of Puerto Rico as they still recover from the devastation that Hurricane Maria wrought when it hit the island back on September 20, 2017 and the challenges lay ahead. Breda O’Brien is a Teacher at Muckross Park College which is an all-girls Secondary School in Dublin, Ireland, and a weekly columnist for The Irish Times. Breda discusses the recent referendum vote on May 23, 2018, to repeal the 8th…
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The United States’ New Embassy in Jerusalem and Catholic Charities Hawaii
On this week’s JustLove episode, Msgr. Kevin Sullivan talks about the US moving the embassy to Jerusalem and also the volcanic eruption in Hawaii. Lena Alhusseini, Executive Director of Lifeworks of Sonoma County in California and whose career has been focused on child welfare and international aid and development both here in the United States and in the Middle East, talks to Monsignor Sullivan about her reaction to the Trump Administration’s moving of the United States Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem earlier this month, and the protests and violence that ensued after that move was made. Terry Walsh, President and CEO of Catholic Charities Hawaii, shares with…
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“Congress shall have the power… to declare War.”
Last evening, I attended an important event focusing on the first amendment right of religious liberty. This is critically important as religious liberty, domestically and globally, is currently threatened in diverse and challenging ways. In the gift bag was a miniature copy of the Constitution. Since it was the eve of the Memorial Day weekend, I perused it and found Section 8 that states very simply: “Congress shall have the power… to declare War.” This weekend we will remember with appreciation and prayer those who gave their lives fighting wars. Sadly, our political system is so paralyzed and compromised that with regularity men and women of the United States are…
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JustLove’s Look at the Met Gala & Memorial Day
On this week’s episode of JustLove, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan will speak with two guests covering Met Gala and Memorial Day 2018. Renee Shumay, Founder of New Catholic Generation Inc. – a YouTube Channel – with over 27,000 subscribers will be calling into the studio. This Youtube Channel is dedicated to encouraging the conversation of Catholicism on-line through authentic representation of young Catholics living out their lives. Renee will be discussing her reaction to the fashions worn at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s 2018 Met Gala held back on May 7th which this year had the theme of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” George B. Horton , Director of the…
