Rev. Daniel Groody, C.S.C., assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, is co-editor ofA Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration,released this month by Notre Dame Press.

A collection of essays by scholars, pastors and lay people involved in immigration aid work, the book presents an interdisciplinary treatment of the subject of migration, focusing on the theology of migration and the ethics of migration policy.

The authors recognize that one characteristic of globalization is the movement, not only of goods and ideas, but also of people. The crossing of geographical borders confronts Christians, as well as all citizens, with choices: between national security and human insecurity; sovereign national rights and human rights; citizenship and discipleship.The essays focus on the particular problems of immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Father Groody, director of the Center for Latino Spirituality and Culture in Notre Dames Institute for Latino 91ÊÓƵ, also is the author ofGlobalization, Spirituality and Justice: Navigating the Path to PeaceandBorder of Death, Valley of Life: An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spiritand editor ofThe Option for the Poor in Christian Theology,which won the 2007 Pax Christi USA Book Award.

Father Groody has been studying Mexican immigration for some 20 years and has produced two film documentaries,Dying to Live: A Migrants Journey,which aired on PBS, andStrangers No Longer,which was created for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and their Justice for Immigrants Campaign.Both seek to present thehuman faceof the immigrant, and Catholic social teaching on migration.

A forthcoming film titledOne Border, One Body:Immigration and the Eucharisthighlights a Mass held at the U.S.-Mexico border with half the community in the U.S., the other half in Mexico, and the altar joined at the fence.

Currently, Father Groody is conducting research on theology and immigration at the Refugee Centre at Oxford University.

_ Contact: Rev. Daniel Groody, C.S.C.,_ " dgroody@nd.edu ":mailto:dgroody@nd.edu , Kathryn Pitts, Notre Dame Press, 574-631-3267, " pitts.5@nd.edu ":mailto:pitts.5@nd.edu

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The University of Notre Dame Press has publishedThe Outer Bands,a first book of poetry by Gabriel Gomez, winner of the 2006 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize awarded by Notre Dames Institute for Latino 91ÊÓƵ (ILS).

An expansive examination of language and landscape, voice and memory, where experimentation and tradition coexist, the book features poems that realize a dialogue between two worlds that employ an equally paradoxical imagery of the American Southwest and the marshes of southern Louisiana.

The Outer Bandsconcludes with its namesake poem, a 28-day chronicle of the period of time between Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which together decimated the Gulf Coast region in 2005.It is a re-contextualization of images, news stories and political rhetoric that Gomez completed during a two-month emergency residency at the Santa Fe (N.M.) Art Institute after his home in New Orleans was destroyed.

Also a playwright and music journalist, Gomez, who now lives in Santa Fe, has taught English at the University of New Orleans, Tulane University, College of Santa Fe and the Institute of American Indian Arts.

The Montoya Poetry Prize, which is the first of its kind in the United States, recognizes a full-length manuscript by a Latino/a poet who has yet to publish a book.It honors the late Andrés Montoya, the author of the award-winning collectionThe Ice Worker Singsand the son of the renowned Chicano artist Malaquias Montoya, who was one of the first ILS fellows.

_ Contact: Kathryn Pitts, Notre Dame Press, 574-631-3267,_ " pitts.5@nd.edu ":mailto:pitts.5@nd.edu

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