Fr. Daniel Groody: Faithful at the Border

Recorded Live: Sunday, March 6, 2005, 9:30 am PST

G U E S T :

• Fr. Daniel Groody
  Assistant Professor of Theology, Associate Director of the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame; Author of Border of Death, Valley of Life: An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit

Moderated by : The Very Rev. Alan Jones,
Dean of Grace Cathedral

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About the Program:

The promise of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was to bring modernization and prosperity to working-class Mexicans, but has that dream come true? Fr. Daniel Groody is a Catholic priest who has been working for many years along the border between the United States and Mexico. He has witnessed the transformation of the area over the past five years resulting from the creation of huge manufacturing facilities, known as maquiladoras, and the increasing pressure along the border to control undocumented immigration. Fr. Groody has tended to the spiritual needs of these workers, and he tells a compelling story of people struggling to make better lives for themselves.

 
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