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Lead by example: Pope offers abuse victims open ear, open heart CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
In California, Catholic agencies and other community-based groups have already begun to respond. “Catholic Charities, working in collaboration with directly affected dioceses and other service organizations, is mobilizing to help these immigrants in centers of hospitality and assistance,” the bishops said. “Many individuals have contacted our parishes and social service agencies asking how they can help. This reflects the best of the American spirit. “We are particularly concerned about the safety and security of the thousands of unaccompanied children that have crossed our border, without a parent or guardian and without family ties to the U.S. They desperately need our help.” Some parishes in the Diocese of San Bernardino are serving as temporary way stations for women and children fleeing violence and drug cartels in Central America. For example, St. Joseph Parish in Fontana became the first to accept the refugees, when 25 mothers and their children began temporary stays at an unused convent,
VATICAN CITY – More than a meeting and homily, Pope Francis laid out a clear road map for the church when he celebrated Mass and welcomed abuse survivors to the Vatican. The morning he dedicated to six men and women who Pope Francis had been abused by clergy was a powerful combination of upholding the importance of having the letter of the law and displaying the proper spirit behind it. Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a German psychologist and psychotherapist who accompanied the two abuse survivors from Germany July 7, said: “This is not only about the letter of the law. This has to come from the heart if this is to really take fruit” and make real, lasting change. The homily-plan of action repeated calls for zero tolerance and accountability for the “despicable” crime of abuse and underlined continued commitment to vigilance in priestly formation and better policies, procedures and training for the implementation norms. But most striking that day, some of the visiting survivors said, were not the pronouncements at Mass, but the heart that went into the patient, oneon-one listening later, in private. While Pope Benedict XVI began the highly symbolic meetings with groups of survivors with his 2008 visit to Washington D.C., Pope Francis took the practice further. He invited survivors to the heart of the church in Rome for a real sit-down conversation – devoid of aides and officials, for a total of two and a half hours.
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Migrants sit at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church temporary shelter in McAllen, Texas, June 27. Most of them fleeing violence from their Central American countries, they received temporary food and shelter after being ordered to appear in immigration court.
Bishops respond to refugee crisis CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
The Catholic bishops of California are coming to the aid of children of families fleeing violence in Central America, saying the crisis calls for a humanitarian response. “In recent days, the people of our state have witnessed the arrival of hundreds of displaced people, mostly women and children, to various locations in Southern California,” the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops, said in a statement July 9. “The bishops of California wish to express our solidarity with these immigrant brothers and sisters who are coming to our state and to offer our prayer that God will deliver them to the safe environment they seek.” The bishops said they also “recognize our responsibility as a church of compassion to come to their aid and help provide them with the practical and pastoral support they so need.” These children and families have journeyed to the U.S., fleeing violence and destitution in Central America, but “Sadly, their experience in California has thus far been marked
‘The gravity of this situation transcends politics; it is truly a humanitarian crisis that calls all of us.’ by hostility and near chaos. They are exhausted, afraid and clinging to hope,” the bishop said. “The gravity of this situation transcends politics; it is truly a humanitarian crisis that calls all of us, Catholics and others of good will, to respond with compassion and with urgent action.” U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it has detained 47,017 unaccompanied children from October 2013 through May 2014, an increase of 92 percent from the same period a year earlier. A draft internal Homeland Security memo from May, reviewed by The Associated Press, said U.S. Border Patrol agents could arrest as many as 90,000 unaccompanied children crossing the Mexican border this year. President Barack Obama called it a “humanitarian crisis.”
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