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 WASHINGTON- The United States has a moral obligation to protect unaccompanied children and families from persecution in Central America, said Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, October 21. Bishop Seitz is an advisor to the USCCB Committee on Migration and a member of the board of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC).The humanitarian outflow, driven by organized crime in the northern triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, continues, with nearly 40,000 unaccompanied children and an equal number of mothers with children having arrived in the United States in Fiscal Year 2015."If we do not respond justly and humanely to this challenge in our own backyard, then we will relinquish our moral leadership and moral influence globally," Bishop Seitz said.Bishop Seitz pointed to the human consequences of U.S. policies which are designed to deter migration from the region, i...
 WASHINGTON- The United States has a moral obligation to protect unaccompanied children and families from persecution in Central America, said Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, October 21. Bishop Seitz is an advisor to the USCCB Committee on Migration and a member of the board of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC).
The humanitarian outflow, driven by organized crime in the northern triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, continues, with nearly 40,000 unaccompanied children and an equal number of mothers with children having arrived in the United States in Fiscal Year 2015.
"If we do not respond justly and humanely to this challenge in our own backyard, then we will relinquish our moral leadership and moral influence globally," Bishop Seitz said.
Bishop Seitz pointed to the human consequences of U.S. policies which are designed to deter migration from the region, including U.S. support for Mexican interdiction efforts which are intercepting children and families in Mexico and sending them back to danger, in violation of international law.
Bishop Seitz recommended an end to these interdictions and the introduction of a regional system which would screen children and families for asylum in Mexico and other parts of the region. He also called for Congress to approve and increase a $1 billion aid package proposed by the Administration.
"If we export enforcement," Bishop Seitz said, "we also must export protection."
Bishop Seitz recalled the words of Pope Francis before Congress in September, when he invoked the golden rule in guiding our nation's actions toward those seeking safety in our land.
Quoting the Holy Father, Bishop Seitz repeated to the committee, "'The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.'"
"Mr. Chairman, I pray that time, and history, will conclude that we honored this rule in meeting this humanitarian challenge," Bishop Seitz concluded.
Bishop Seitz' testimony can be found at http://www.usccb.org//about/migration-policy/congressional-testimony/upload/seitz-ongoing-migration.pdf
Keywords: Bishop Mark J. Seitz, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, USCCB, Congress, Senate, Committee on Migration, migration, unaccompanied children, violence, Pope Francis
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Pamplona, Spain, Dec 11, 2015 / 09:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A group of Catholics has launched a worldwide prayer chain to make reparation for a sacrilegious art display in Pamplona, Spain. “Let us ask the Lord’s forgiveness through his Mother, the Most Holy Virgin with the prayer that pleases her so much: the Rosary,” the prayer chain organizers said on their Spanish-language website. More than 700 people have signed up for the prayer chain. The exhibit featured over 200 consecrated Hosts stolen from Mass and arranged to spell out the word “pederasty.” While the Hosts have been recovered, the exhibit still shows photographs the theft and the abuse of the Hosts. The exhibit is hosted in Pamplona’s publicly funded Conde Rodezno exhibition hall. Thousands of Spaniards took part in protests of the exhibit but the city council has so far failed to act to remove it. The organizers of the prayer chain ask people to commit to pray the Rosary in consec...
Pamplona, Spain, Dec 11, 2015 / 09:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A group of Catholics has launched a worldwide prayer chain to make reparation for a sacrilegious art display in Pamplona, Spain.
“Let us ask the Lord’s forgiveness through his Mother, the Most Holy Virgin with the prayer that pleases her so much: the Rosary,” the prayer chain organizers said on their Spanish-language website.
More than 700 people have signed up for the prayer chain.
The exhibit featured over 200 consecrated Hosts stolen from Mass and arranged to spell out the word “pederasty.” While the Hosts have been recovered, the exhibit still shows photographs the theft and the abuse of the Hosts.
The exhibit is hosted in Pamplona’s publicly funded Conde Rodezno exhibition hall. Thousands of Spaniards took part in protests of the exhibit but the city council has so far failed to act to remove it.
The organizers of the prayer chain ask people to commit to pray the Rosary in consecutive time slots 24 hours a day as long as “the blasphemous art exhibit in Pamplona remains open.” They plan to pray through Jan. 17.
“Until that day, our proposal is to always have at least one person praying the Rosary as a sign of reparation,” they emphasized.
The organizers said that that the art exhibit is “an extremely grave offense against Our Lord.” They said they are convinced "this kind of evil must be atoned for, and even more so considering it will be open during the Christmas season.”
They said volunteering for the prayer chain is a commitment "to Our Most Holy Mother to make reparation to Our Lord” for “hardly a month.”
They encouraged participants to pray the Rosary “with affection and unhurriedly.” They said that in heaven “prayer is not measured in time but in love.”
The Spanish-language prayer chain website is at https://rosarioparadesagraviar.wordpress.com.
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