Borders Within the Heart: Perception, Reflection, and Identity
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Authors
Kelly, Tom
Issue Date
2017
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Video
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en_US
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EXCERPT|Where do we stand on borders and walls? Every year I guide two groups to visit two different borders. One of those borders is between the Dominican Republic in Haiti and the other is between the United States and Mexico. Participants in my program are not amazed at how we can simply pass through the border gates with no checks, no hassle, no barrier at all. It does not faze them. They have come to expect such easy access. We walk from Arizona into Mexico without even having our passports glanced at. We arranged passage from the DR into Haiti through a company that offers access for a small price. No stamps, no hassle, no problem. Who are we to be able to pass through and around walls with no thought? There are many who see us as members of an empire. A theologian from El Salvador described such an empire in 2004, when he said the following: Today's Empire is the United States...
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Center for Catholic Thought, Creighton University.
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© 2017 John J. O'Keefe