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r Southern Cross, Page 2 Headline Hopscotch Thursday, September 14, 2017 A worker helps an elderly woman from a rescue boat as it evacuates people from the floodwaters of Tropical Storm Harvey Aug. 30 in Houston. (CNS photo/Carlo Allegri, Reuters) Defend life, equali ty, UNITY, POPE TELLS Colombians BOGOTA, Colombia (CNS) onsolidating peace in Colombia will mean overcoming "the darkness" of inequality and a lack of respect for human life, Pope Francis said. "Here, as in other places, there is a thick darkness which threatens and destroys life," the pope said in his homily at a late-aftemoon Mass Sept. 7 in Bogota's Simon Bolivar Park. Colombian authorities said more than 1.1 million people gathered in the park for the Mass. Many of them were soaked in a rainstorm before the pope arrived, but as Mass began, bits of blue sky began to appear. Still, preaching about the Gospel story of Jesus' first encountering Simon Peter after the fishermen had fished all night without luck, Pope Francis spoke about the "turmoil and darkness" of the sea as a symbol for "everything that threatens human existence and that has the power to destroy it." For Colombia, just start ing to recover from more than 50 years of civil war, and for many other nations as well, the pope said, the threats come from "the darkness of injustice and social inequality; (and) the corrupting darkness of personal and group interests that consume in a selfish and uncontrolled way what is destined for the good of all." The threats include "the darkness of dis respect for human life which daily destroys the life of many innocents, whose blood cries out to heaven; the darkness of thirst for vengeance and the hatred which stains the hands of those who would right wrongs on their own authority; the darkness of those who become numb to the pain of so many victims," he said. But "Jesus scatters and destroys all this darkness." Wife, mother DESCRIBES TRAUMA SHE FELT DURING RECENT DEPORTA TION ATTEMPT INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) t was a typical day for Maira Bordonabe last spring. "I dropped my children off for school, then I spent some time in (adoration)," said the married mother of two children, ages 7 and 12, and a member of St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in Indianapolis. On that typical spring day as she pulled out of the parking lot to head home, Bordonabe had no idea she would not see her family again as a free woman for nearly five months. On her way home, she was stopped by two Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers charged with the task of taking her to Chicago, from where she was then to be sent back to her native Mexico. Bordonabe, now in her 30s, had immigrated to the United States at a younger age with her family. She married a U.S. citizen, her children are U.S. citizens, and she is working toward a degree in human resources to help her husband provide a better life for their family. She hardly fits the criteria that President Donald Trump claimed would be the focus of his administration's deportation efforts during a "60 Minutes" inter view days after he won the presiden tial election: undocumented immi grants who were "criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers." Nevertheless, Bordonabe was immediately taken to a deporta tion center in Chicago. 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