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Washington D.C., Jan 26, 2017 / 09:27 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A leading bishop expressed alarm and dismay on Wednesday following President Trump’s executive orders to increase immigrant detention centers and build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.“Every day, my brother bishops and I witness the harmful effects of immigrant detention in our ministries. We experience the pain of severed families that struggle to maintain a semblance of normal family life. We see traumatized children in our schools and in our churches,” said Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin, Texas, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration.“The policies announced today will only further upend immigrant families.”President Trump issued multiple executive orders Wednesday on immigration.He ordered a wall to be built on the U.S.-Mexico border. An estimated 650 miles of the 1,900 mile-long U.S.-Mexico border have a wall constructed currently.“The purpose of this order is to direct...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With "post-truth" beingcrowned "Word of the Year" by Oxford Dictionaries, Pope Francis'urgent call to communicate trust and hope could not have come at a better time.Helping people see the world with "realism andtrust" must be encouraged as well as fostering encounter, not exclusion,through constructive dialogue, the pope said in his World Communications Daymessage this year.A post-truth culture in which objective factsand objective, divinely inspired moral principles no longer have any place orpull in people's lives is not to be taken lightly, said Bishop Paul Tighe, adjunctsecretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture."One of the real risks at the moment is that if webecome totally skeptical about all the (sources) of information, it will leadto a breakdown of the kind of trust that is necessary for society and indeedour own human lives to flourish," he told Catholic News Service Jan. 24,the day the pope's message was released to the public.P...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Rhode Island court has ordered a scrapyard to remove the remnants of a Russian submarine once used as a set for a Harrison Ford movie from the Providence River....
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) -- Gambia's new President Adama Barrow has finally returned home, solidifying his position as this country's first new commander in chief in more than two decades....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday declared Ohio's new lethal injection process unconstitutional and delayed three executions, including one scheduled next month....
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A man who died in a California prison in 2010 while serving a sentence for killing and dismembering his wife is responsible for killing five people in New Hampshire in the 1980s, authorities said Thursday....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Congress will move legislation this year providing up to $15 billion to build a wall along the Mexican boundary, Republican leaders said Thursday. But they would not say how they would prevent the massive project from adding to federal deficits....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto says he will not attend a planned Jan. 31 meeting with President Donald J. Trump, hours after Trump tweeted the meeting should be canceled if Mexico won't pay for a border wall....
(Vatican Radio) Instead of rampant business expansion which tramples on the world’s poor, Pope Francis has often criticized conventional economics for fostering unfairness and inequality.In a recent address to The Global Foundation, the Holy Father called for a ‘more fraternal and cooperative globalization'.To find out more about the idea of cooperative globalization, Devin Watkins spoke to Fr. Séamus Finn, OMI, who is Ethical Advisor for the OIP Investment Trust, which provides faith-consistent investing advice for the financial resources of Catholic organizations.Listen to the full interview: "Cooperative globalization," Fr. Finn said, "is maybe a new term that is probably challenging, because globalization seemed to suggest that we had a sense we were all inhabiting the same planet and that we needed to be responsable... and to cooperate on issues like trade, finance, education."But the Pope's term adds the adjective ...
(Vatican Radio) A Polish missionary has been murdered during an attack on a childcare center in Cochabamba, central BoliviaThe young lay missionary, Helena Kmiec, was reportedly stabbed on Tuesday, and died of her wounds.The Salvator Missionary Volunteering group, with whom Helena worked, had organized her assignment to Bolivia.According to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bolivian police have detained a number of suspects.Fr. Adam Ziolkowski, director of the Volunteering group told Vatican Radio’s Rafal Laczny that the attack took place early Tuesday morning at the center run by Polish nuns.Listen: Ziolkowski said it appears robbers broke into the center during the night and found Helena awake, “she tried to defend herself and she was stabbed repeatedly” on her hands, arms and chest.He said her screams woke up another volunteer and the attacker ran away; she was immediately assisted but unfortunately died from her wounds.Ziolkowski said Police believe Hel...
