A Stranger and You Welcomed Me pax25 based on a series of

based on a series of articles originally written in 1981

and an analysis of the controversies at play

Joan Chittister is past president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious

and diversity at Azusa Pacific University

A Stranger and You Welcomed Me pax25 based on a series of"Solidarity, this word that frightens the developed world. People try to avoid saying it. Solidarity to them is almost a bad word. But it is our word!" Pope Francis The plight of migrants and refugees has been a constant and urgent priority for Pope Francis. On his first trip outside of Rome to the Island of Lampedusa, a way station for refugees in the Mediterranean, he spoke of the many who have drowned: "We are a society which has forgotten how to