Immigration and Survival: An Alternative Perspective from Central America

John Donaghy was Director of Campus Ministry and Coordinator of Charity, Justice, and Peace Ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center at Iowa State University from 1983 to spring 2007. In June 2007 he began ministry in southwestern Honduras with the diocese of Santa Rosa de Copan. In addition to his current work in Latin America, he has spent time in El Salvador as a leader of educational delegations and doing pastoral work in the parishes of Santa Lucia, Suchitoto, and San Roque, San Salvador. He was a volunteer with a program for Catholic and Protestant children in Northern Ireland sponsored by the Irish Fellowship of Reconciliation and has participated in Campus Ministry Across the Americas in Peru and Bolivia. Donaghy has a PhD in philosophy from Boston College. His scholarly interests are in agriculture and Catholic social teaching, the ethics of development, and nonviolence and nonviolent movements.