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Patrick M. Davis

Patrick M. Davis

Patrick M. Davis is a freelance journalist based in Austin, Texas. He has written for Texas Music Magazine and Austin Monthly and has done audio reporting for the statewide NPR show Texas Standard.

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On Jan. 18, 2018, recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and their supporters, including clergy, participate in a news conference sponsored by The Metropolitan Organization at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Aldine, Texas. They gathered thousands of postcards to be mailed to congressional members urging they keep the DACA program intact. (CNS/Courtesy of TMO)

For 50 years, Texas IAF organizing group has drawn on Catholic roots

Since 1974, the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation and its local affiliates have taken on a range of social and political issues. For its members and organizers, the work is perfectly aligned with Catholic teaching.

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