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In their 90s, Sisters of Mercy have spent their lives fighting for immigrant justice. And they’re not stopping now.
January 21, 2025
In a piece by Nell Salzman of the Chicago Tribune, entitled: "In their 90s, Sisters of Mercy have spent their lives fighting for immigrant justice. And they’re not stopping now," Emily Crews,PhD, executive director of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion was called upon as an expert source.
Their interest in immigration was inspired by their fellow sisters’ path-paving leadership, rooted in religion. The sanctuary movement — specifically in the United States — is a religious movement, said Emily Crews, executive director of University of Chicago Divinity School’s Martin Marty Center, whose mission is the public understanding of religion.
“Often we think resistance to immigration is religious, and I think that’s true in some ways, but the protection of immigration is also religious,” Crews said.
