"Welcoming the stranger is central to who we are as Catholics and who we must be as a nation. At a time when fear speaks loudly in politics, workplaces and neighborhoods, the church's prophetic voice must rise above the noise. ...
This moment will test the moral imagination of our country and our church."
~ Rigoberto Caloca Rivas
#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/14
"MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: 'Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!'
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it."
~ TN Holler
Linked posting has video footage of the masked thugs grabbing the mother and whisking her away as she makes a desperate call for help for her children.
#KristiNoem #Trump #MAGA #DHS #ICE #CBP #immigrants #violence #deportations #Christianity #churches
/10
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mdmbsmem7k2c
"At an outdoor vigil service honoring Alex Pretti and Sunday Masses in Catholic pcarishes in the Twin Cities, Catholics spoke urgently of the need to stand up against injustice in the current immigration crackdown and vowed to continue to offer practical help to the local immigrant community."
~ Tim Montgomery
#AlexPretti #Trump #Minnesota #murder #execution #immigrants #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/11
"'Every sermon from the pulpit should be denouncing very clearly this injustice, this cruelty, this barbarity,' said a participant at the vigil on the street honoring the 37-year-old nurse who had been shot and killed earlier that day by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
#AlexPretti #Trump #Minnesota #murder #execution #immigrants #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/12
"The participant at the Jan. 24 vigil was an Iraq War veteran from Kansas City who taught in a Catholic school there. He did not want his name used for fear of retribution but he encouraged other Catholics to become actively involved, saying: 'There is a power in our presence.'"
#AlexPretti #Trump #Minnesota #murder #execution #immigrants #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/13
"Welcoming the stranger is central to who we are as Catholics and who we must be as a nation. At a time when fear speaks loudly in politics, workplaces and neighborhoods, the church's prophetic voice must rise above the noise. ...
This moment will test the moral imagination of our country and our church."
~ Rigoberto Caloca Rivas
#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #Christianity #churches #Catholic
/14
"The choices we make now, in our parishes, our communities and our public life, will reveal whether we truly believe what we proclaim.
If we say every person is made in the image of God, then we cannot remain silent when that dignity is denied. If we say families are sacred, then we cannot look away when they are torn apart. If we say the Gospel still speaks to our world, then we must allow it to speak through us."
#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #churches #Catholic
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