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Catholics gather on Hill to pray lawmakers will protect the Dreamers
A group of priests, religious, young immigrants and their supporters gathered outside of the U.S. Capitol Feb. 6 to pray for the Dreamers, whose lives are in limbo, and for the legislators who have the power to change their situation.
Cardinal blesses cemetery plaques honoring memory, legacy of slaves
Saying the time had come to "right a wrong," Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl blessed and dedicated commemorative bronze plaques honoring unknown enslaved men, women and children buried throughout the Archdiocese of Washington.
Cardinal Tobin: Christians must recognize humanity of immigrants, refugees
We forget where we came from, not just as the early Christian church, but also as a country, when early Catholic immigrants in the 19th century were treated and portrayed in the U.S. "as apes and drunkards and ignorant and threats to God-fearing women and children," Cardinal Tobin said.
Texas Catholic school sees power of prayer in remembrance of late teacher
During Catholic Schools Week, eighth-grade students at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Conroe, Texas, release a balloon rosary, after praying a living rosary in the school field in honor of Vicky Tannos, a former teacher who died from cancer in 2017.
Faith an essential part of story for real-life heroes of ’15:17 to Paris’
While on a backpacking trip in 2015 through Europe, their Paris-bound train was attacked by a terrorist and the three childhood friends were able to subdue him, saving the lives of the more than 500 passengers on board the train.
Cardinal commissions social ministers with tales of pope, martyrs
Cardinal DiNardo focused on Pope Francis' 2013 apostolic exhortation, "Evangelii Gaudium" ("The Joy of the Gospel"), which he said was "a text dear to the heart of Pope Francis."
Parish throws Super Bowl party for homeless displaced by security
Because of a security perimeter around the Minneapolis stadium where the big game was played, a church-run shelter was moved to a nearby parish where 58 homeless people spent last weekend and enjoyed the game.
‘Worker centers’ show a new way for immigrants to score wins
Speakers from two such centers discussed their worker and community organizing experiences Feb. 5 during the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington at a forum called "Protecting Workers and Immigrants in the 21st Century: New Models for Worker Justice."
Indigenous leader pleads with Catholics to help in plight of the earth
Adelson da Silva, who goes by the name Kora, warned the crowd that rich and poor will suffer, if humans keep on the path of destruction that has altered the cycles of nature that the Kanamari people and others can see so clearly.
See the innocence of the unborn in the face of immigrants, bishop urges
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholics have to learn to see innocence in the faces of those coming to the U.S., just as they see the innocence of children in the womb, a Seattle auxiliary bishop said Feb. 3 in addressing one the largest gatherings of social ministry leaders from around the country. But immigrants, children and […]