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Catholic advocates join in outcry over ICE deportations at start of year
January 21, 2016WASHINGTON (CNS)—Catholic advocacy agencies quickly joined the pushback after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the beginning of the year arrested immigrants, all Central American families, who were in the United States illegally. After a series of meetings with Homeland Security officials Jan. 11, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told reporters, “I think you’re […]
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Lebanon strains under weight of refugees
January 21, 2016BEIRUT (CNS)—While the flow of migrants into Europe and the West has sparked controversy, Lebanon continues to bear the brunt of absorbing massive numbers of refugees. A commonly cited figure is that one in four people in Lebanon is displaced from Syria. “They are everywhere … in all of Lebanon,” Father Paul Karam, president of […]
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Church’s credibility found in showing mercy, pope says in new book
January 21, 2016VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Being ministers of God’s mercy, church members overcome “prejudice and rigidity,” taking risks like Jesus did in order to heal and to save, Pope Francis said. In Jesus’ day, lepers were cast out of the community “to avoid contamination: the healthy needed to be protected,” but Jesus, at his own risk, “goes up […]
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January’s witness to the gift of life
January 21, 2016The civil rights movement and the right-to-life movement are now sharing center stage across our nation, as they do each January. Dr. King’s birthday commemoration and the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision anniversary both capture a lot of media attention within the short time span of just a few weeks. The gigantic moral figure […]
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Immigration opposition: My country, ‘tis of me, but no room for thee
January 21, 2016WASHINGTON (CNS)—“No Irish need apply.” That was a typical sign more than a century ago in cities along the Eastern Seaboard when job openings were announced in store windows. Of course, it wasn’t the Irish alone who bore the stigma of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States. Name the ethnic group, and suspicions, fears and […]
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Reepicheep as a role model for the new year
January 21, 2016“I love real mice,” C.S. Lewis wrote to a child, “There are lots in my rooms in College, but I have never set a trap.” He added, “When I sit up late working they poke their heads out from behind the curtains just as if they were saying, ‘Hi! Time for you to go to […]
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‘What precisely is the Gospel?’
January 21, 2016Some years ago, I was involved in a Catholic-Evangelical dialogue. One of our Protestant brothers challenged the Catholics in the group to articulate clearly what the Gospel is. I knew what he was getting at: many evangelicals pride themselves on the fact that they can succinctly sum up the Good News in a way that […]
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‘13 Hours’ dramatizes courage of Benghazi’s unsung heroes
January 21, 2016NEW YORK (CNS)—Some might fear, simply from reading its title, that “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” (Paramount) would turn out to be little more than a rehash of the congressional hearings on the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya. In reality, the film is a gripping, fact-based account of what happened on the ground […]
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The right place
January 21, 2016“The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.” Patti Smith Monastic life has as its aim the transformation of the heart. Young people often ask me how it came to be that I entered the monastery at a later point in my life. I was 48 years old […]
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Dialogue, remembrance, peace highlighted as pope visits synagogue
January 21, 2016ROME (CNS)—While the Catholic Church affirms that salvation comes through Jesus, it also recognizes that God is faithful and has not revoked his covenant with the Jewish people, Pope Francis said. Interrupted repeatedly with applause at Rome’s main synagogue Jan. 17, the pope said the church “recognizes the irrevocability of the Old Covenant and the […]