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Justice for Immigrants' Latest NewsTestimony Of Most Reverend José H. Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles, Chairman, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,Before the Senate Judiciary Committee On Comprehensive Immigration ReformFebruary 12, 2013Archbishop Jose Gomez testifies on behalf of the Committee of Migration on the Catholic Church’s perspective on comprehensive immigration reform.His testimony recommends that Congress—• Enact comprehensive immigration reform legislation that provides a path to citizenship for undocumented workers in our nation; reforms the employment-based immigration...
“God Doesn't Consider As Much The Qualities Of The Chosen As Their Faith”Two days before the surprising announcement of his resignation, Pope Benedict XVI said a few very significant words about vocation, encouraging everyone not to worry about their imperfections in following their vocation, but to trust in God who can transform life. He added that, a person is not the author of its own vocation, but that it responds to the divine proposal. Human weakness should not lead us to fear God's call. It is necessary to be confident in His strength, which acts precisely in our weakness. We must...
Let's pray for Pope Benedict who is stepping down at the end of the month.Dear Brothers,I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with...
BIOGRAPHY OF HIS HOLINESS, POPE BENEDICT XVICardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, was born at Marktl am Inn, Diocese of Passau (Germany) on 16 April 1927 (Holy Saturday) and was baptised on the same day. His father, a policeman, belonged to an old family of farmers from Lower Bavaria of modest economic resources. His mother was the daughter of artisans from Rimsting on the shore of Lake Chiem, and before marrying she worked as a cook in a number of hotels.He spent his childhood and adolescence in Traunstein, a small village near the Austrian border, thirty kilometres from Salzburg. In...
Training for the journeyLent is a time at which the Church invites us to reflect on how we are making that journey. In this way we also prepare to celebrate Easter, Holy Week, and the remembrance of the Passion and death of Christ. In a certain sense, this can be compared to an athlete who trains by exercising, watching his weight, taking care of his nourishment, and avoiding anything that might have an adverse effect on the body. This is the way in which a Christian should enter Lent. During Lent God invites the whole Christian family to do penance and to fast from all those things that...
By Father Benjamín Romero Arrieta, CMFAt some point, perhaps we may have inquired about the meaning of a “consecrated life”. Perhaps we have limited its meaning to the men and women religious in charge of accompanying the ministries of our local parishes. But I also consider that the consecrated life may be lived from our own reality, by consecrating ourselves in love and truth as we help to build our church. I say love and truth because this is what I consider to be the meaning of being consecrated in service to the people of God.As a child when I watched the love my parents shared with each...
By Krisina Purga | NBCLatino.com Angela Urquiaga goes to work at 5:30am so she can open the doors to homeless students who sleep by Rancho High School’s steps. She doesn’t have to be there so early, but she knows for some the school is their only haven.Urquiaga says when she first starting helping homeless students in 2001, there were only seven or eight in Las Vegas, NV. Today, there are more than 5,000. In the last 11 years, she says she’s helped more than 3,000 homeless students with the aid of everyday people willing to give a few dollars, or donate clothes and toiletries.Urquiaga knows...
In order to make good decisions, you need to have a certain maturity. Otherwise the goals will not be clear, you won’t take into account your true strengths and limitations, and, in the end you might make decisions for all the wrong reasons.Here are some signs of maturity and immaturity:Signs of maturity:Having a balanced conscience, without feelings of guilt or anxieties. That means having a healthy self-concept so you don’t believe you’re greater than you are, nor do you undervalue yourself.Capacity to keep balanced emotional relationships. That means avoiding obsessions and unnatural...
By: Susana GuzmanEvery year, the English Youth Group of Our Lady of Mercy Parish, ICHTHUS, has their end of the year retreat. This year, because of the craziness of life, they moved it a week later and saw it as an opportunity to make it a New Year, New You retreat. The team of four leaders sat down with their mentors and discussed the retreat, the needs, the why, and the how. The group consists of high school aged and college aged students, mostly of Filipino descent but slowly growing into a multicultural group of English and Spanish speaking youth and young adults, as they extended the...
By Brother Alan Parham, FSCI am passionate about two things: my vocation and my Latino heritage. When people say to me that I am not Latino because I was born in Brooklyn and my last name is Parham, I remind them that many Latinos are born in this country, and my last name is derived from my father, who was part Mayan and half British, having come from Belize. Besides, my mom is Chilean.It is true there are not many brothers of Latino descent in this country, but I am definitely one of them. After I first joined the Christian Brothers, someone advised me to “tone down the Latino stuff.” Not a...
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