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Illinois bill would allow detainees access to religious counselors
Posted on May 12, 2008 08:20am CST.By Michelle Martin Catholic News Service
CHICAGO -- Mercy Sisters JoAnn Persch and Pat Murphy didn't know too much about the system faced by immigrants who are about to be deported when they started praying outside the Broadview detention center last year.
But their community, the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, had committed itself to stand in solidarity with immigrants. When the sisters asked what they could do to support immigrants, Elena Segura, director of the Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform for the Archdiocese of Chicago, suggested they join the regular Friday morning prayer vigil in suburban Broadview. Friday is the day detainees leave the Broadview holding facility on their way to deportation.
Facing Evil: Qui tacet consentit. - Who keeps silent, consents
Posted on May 12, 2008 15:54pm CST.| El Rio Debajo El Rio: The river beneath the river, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés | |
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The trajectory of evil is not particularly creative; it is most often banal and predictable. Evil respects no economic, social or intellectual differences. It can colonize and live well in one who has little or nothing, as well as those who have everything. Being in one profession or another, even in the consecrated ones, is no inoculation against evil. One of the strongest markers that evil is present occurs when the suffering of humanity is completely ignored.... and it was and is within one’s power to make it cease... but the one in charge chooses otherwise.
--cpe
The old believers of my family said it was easy to spot a person who had no soul. The center of such persons’ bodies, they said, were without light.
But far more dangerous to the souls of all, they said, were those who were filled with a certain kind of light; the light of ambition; the light of coveting, the light of wanting to control all things.
