116: Justice and Mercy for Immigrants ft. Andrea Mendoza
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
When Jesus told us to welcome the stranger, He meant it. That’s a principle that today’s guest, Andrea Mendoza, is truly living out. She volunteers with immigrants within our country and helps provide them with basic necessities that enable them to live out their dignity. Andrea is also sharing her own parents’ story of living in our country undocumented for years.
Andrea will truly inspire you, but what I love most about her is the way she has turned her passion and empathy into real, concrete action. She’s out there on the frontlines, not in a glamorous spokesperson-CSPAN-Good Morning America type way, but really getting her hands dirty and doing the work. As many people enter the US for a wide variety of reasons, we often focus on the (very important!) policies that affect them instead of focusing on the literal human person who has basic needs. Enjoy our conversation!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Catholic feminist, episode 116. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we're talking all about justice and mercy for undocumented immigrants. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by audible for a free audio book and a free 30-day trial, |
| 0:14.7 | make sure you head on over to audibletrial.com slash Catholic. |
| 0:18.6 | Today's episode is also brought to you by the Blessed is She Academic Year Planner. This planner for the |
| 0:24.3 | modern Catholic woman can be grabbed at the Catholic feminist podcast.com slash |
| 0:28.6 | planner. Welcome to the Catholic feminist, a podcast for strong women who want to be |
| 0:36.2 | informed, inspired, and intentional. I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. Happy. |
| 0:44.0 | Happy. |
| 0:45.0 | Happy Wednesday, |
| 0:47.0 | Happy Wednesday, everybody. I am recording this from my parents house |
| 0:56.8 | because I'm in Madison doing the audio recording for Girl Arise the past couple days |
| 1:02.0 | it's been really fun and a new challenging |
| 1:04.8 | experience that I've enjoyed. So thank you so much to everyone who |
| 1:09.0 | purchased the book because that is what told an audio book company that people would probably enjoy it in audio. |
| 1:16.0 | So the small things you do make a really big difference and I just |
| 1:20.0 | I'm really, really appreciative of you. |
| 1:22.2 | I'm also really appreciative of you. I'm also really appreciative of today's guest. We are talking to |
| 1:25.7 | Andrea Mendoza. Andrea volunteers with undocumented immigrants as you will hear her explain and |
| 1:31.9 | she has a very personal tie to this |
| 1:34.4 | issue. Her parents were undocumented in the United States for many years. We |
| 1:39.6 | recently mentioned on the podcast about the importance of getting as close to the source as |
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