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“You don’t do that!” That is what Arturo Sosa, S.J., the superior general of the Jesuits, would say to President Trump about his mass deportation of undocumented migrants if he had the opportunity to meet him.
“Of course I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous,” said Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in a meeting with Trump administration officials on Monday, April 14.
All over the world, Christ is again being crucified in the bodies of human rights lawyers and journalists who stand up for justice in the face of criminality, whether from gangs or governments.
A Jerusalem Voice for Justice released a statement expressing solidarity with the Palestinians suffering in Gaza and the West Bank and appealing for help from their fellow Christians worldwide “who see our wounds but do not speak out.”
Catholic faithful do not “buy” Masses, but when a priest accepts an offering and promises to celebrate a Mass for that person’s loved one or other special intention he must do so, the Vatican said.