Category Archives: justice

Women hold up half the sky… a meditation on women’s rights and issues

Posted on February 13, 2016 by silviantonia

We are living in a world that is ever more disrespectful and abusive of women’s rights and issues.  In our current scene of politicians who pander to the lowest common denominator to blast and blaspheme against the birthing half of humanity, … Continue reading →

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Empathy and compassion

Posted on February 4, 2016 by silviantonia

Yesterday I went to bring papers to the widow I have been helping.  After twenty-nine years of marriage to an abusive husband, a marriage in which she stayed in obedience to her marriage vows, as she is a fervent Catholic, … Continue reading →

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Immigration in troubled times and cold days

Posted on December 8, 2015 by silviantonia

December 5th WCDF Vigil Vigilia del 5 de diciembre en el Centro de Detención Held by Lacey Hunter with the help of Kristi Laughlin and Silvia A. Brandon Pérez as music leader – celebrada por Lacey Hunter con la ayuda … Continue reading →

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The injustice of an imperial system

Posted on November 7, 2015 by silviantonia

On May 28, 2010, a longtime resident of San Diego, Anastasio Hernández Rojas,was brutally beaten, shot repeatedly with a Taser and killed by border patrol agents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. As happens these days, eyewitnesses recorded the … Continue reading →

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Good days and bad days: an activist’s plaint

Posted on October 20, 2015 by silviantonia

Yesterday I posted in my Spanish blog that I had been listening to Leon Gieco’s song, “Cinco siglos igual” (which translates roughly to “the same thing for five centuries”) and that I couldn’t help but think that despite all the … Continue reading →

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Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent: Upheaval and protest

Posted on March 8, 2015 by silviantonia

Today is the third Sunday of Lent and also International Women’s Day. We see Jesus the Jewish errant sage on a rampage, throwing the moneychangers out of the temple, an angry Jesus who is acting in a very disagreeable fashion. … Continue reading →

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