Amirah Orozco

Apr 2, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Alexander Stern |Amirah Orozco |Joseph Amar |Thomas Geoghegan

On October 19, 2023, an Israeli airstrike near St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City caused a wall of the church to collapse, killing eighteen Palestinian civilians who had taken refuge there. If, as Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated, the deaths were a case of “collateral damage,” what happened two months later at Holy Family Catholic Church was targeted and premeditated.

Mar 27, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Amirah Orozco |Tzvi Novick |Joseph Amar |Arvin Alaigh

On October 19, 2023, an Israeli airstrike near St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City caused a wall of the church to collapse, killing eighteen Palestinian civilians who had taken refuge there. If, as Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated, the deaths were a case of “collateral damage,” what happened two months later at Holy Family Catholic Church was targeted and premeditated.

Mar 9, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Amirah Orozco |Arvin Alaigh |Xavier M. Montecel |Dorothy Fortenberry

“I struggled with this text,” is a phrase I hear a lot in doctoral studies. From undergraduates to doctoral students, to “struggle” with the text often means to disagree with its arguments or to reject its method. What it almost never means for people with a certain type of pedigree, however, is “I did not understand this text.” As I read today’s Gospel, however, I must admit that I struggled.

Jun 2, 2023 | ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Amirah Orozco

The power of particularity is familiar to Christians. We worship a universal God who incarnated in a particular time and place, in the particular person of Jesus Christ. Blessed John Duns Scotus coined the term "thisness" to describe the way that God, who creates freely, gives each individual part of creation a unique existence contained within itself. We are bound together not by uniformity, but by the common fact of a universal Creator who grants each of us a unique particularity.

Mar 25, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Amirah Orozco |Paul Moses |Austen Ivereigh |Robert Rubsam

Anti-government demonstrators protest against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte in Juliaca Feb. 9, 2023 (OSV News photo/Pilar Olivares, Reuters). As the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2023, I was in Juliaca, Puno, in the southern Andean region of Peru. I was hosted there at the parish Pueblo de Dios, by the parish priest Fr. Luis “Lucho” Zambrano and a lay leader named Edwin Poire.