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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. "I spent four
months there with other women, most
of them mothers," she said, her voice
quivering with emotion as she shared
her story with a crowd of more than
350 people at a "families first" budget
rally Aug. 30 hosted by Indianapolis
Congregation Action Network at
Holy Spirit Parish. "One woman
from Africa had been there for eight
months trying to prove her need for
asylum."
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