Vatican promotes human dignity, but falters on concrete realities

(DAVID E. DECOSSE. NCR on line).-

The students and I stood in a packed migrant shelter in Altar, Sonora, Mexico, in front of several young men who had clambered down from three-tiered bunk beds attached high up on the wall.

“What do you want us to tell people back in the United States about you?” one of us asked. Altar is 60 miles south of the border and a key staging point for the migration route north.

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