Brett Hoover

Feb 26, 2025 | commonwealmagazine.org | Alejandra Oliva |Terence Sweeney |Brett Hoover |Nuria López Torres |Núria Torres

Article Visibly Invisible The Trump administration hopes not only to deport migrants, but also to make them feel so unsafe they no longer participate actively in our communities. The New ‘Preeminent Urgency’ A special episode about how the Catholic Church is responding to the Trump administration’s ‘crackdown’ on migrants and its plans for mass deportations. Article Will the Bishops Stand Up to Trump?

Dec 26, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Brett Hoover

“Why didn’t the Biden Administration shut down and seal the border?” The question, posted on my social-media account, came a few days after the 2024 election from an old friend of mine, a diocesan priest. He seemed to imply that if Biden had done so, Kamala Harris might have won the election. My friend was a politically involved Democrat in his youth, but long ago he joined the exodus of Catholic pro-life voters into the GOP.

Feb 28, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Brett Hoover |César J. Baldelomar |Brad East |Paul Baumann

Fifteen years ago, while doing field research in a parish transformed by immigration from Mexico, I asked Anglo parishioners what they thought about the changes in their community. One middle-aged man told me he had no problem with immigration from Mexico, as long as their small Midwestern city was not, as he put it, “inundated.” I was struck by the ambiguity in the metaphor.

Feb 23, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Brett Hoover |Anthony Domestico |Albert Wu |Nuria López Torres |Núria Torres

Article Inundated We must resist the urge to think of human immigrants as natural disasters. Article Betraying Ukraine The Biden administration has failed to articulate its overall objectives in Ukraine. Article Letters from War’s Edge Alice McDermott has a rare ability to render how we actually think.