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Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
Greetings from Zambia where I am visiting SCIAF partners and projects. It has taken just over 24 hours to reach our destination at Kebwe and, after a short rest, we joined the Holy Family Sisters for Mass.
St James reminded us that faith - our relationship with God - is not genuine unless we reach out to the poor and vulnerable in love. For Scottish Catholics SCIAF is our official agency through which we serve the world’s poor. Over the next few days I will experience Zambian dioceses and Caritas serving local communities. I hope that sharing inspiring examples of the Scottish and Zambian Churches cooperating in support of the poor will deepen your appreciation of the integral link between love of God and love of humanity.
+Brian

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Cardinal Pizzaballa rededicates 100-year-old temple where the Ark of the Covenant is said to have rested.

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Your Holiness, you have always spoken in defence of the dignity of life. In Timor-Leste, which has a high birth rate, you said you felt life pulsing and exploding with so many children. In Singapore, you defended migrant workers. With the US elections coming up, what advice would you give a Catholic voter faced with a candidate who supports ending a pregnancy and another who wants to deport 11 million migrants?
Both are against life: the one that throws out migrants and the one that kills children. Both are against life. I can’t decide; I’m not American and won’t go to vote there. But let it be clear: denying migrants the ability to work and receive hospitality is a sin, a grave sin. The Old Testament speaks repeatedly of the orphan, the widow, and the stranger—migrants. These are the three that Israel must care for. Failing to care for migrants is a sin, a sin against life and humanity.
I celebrated Mass at the border, near the diocese of El Paso. There were many shoes from migrants, who ended poorly there. Today, there is a flow of migration within Central America, and many times they are treated like slaves because people take advantage of the situation. Migration is a right, and it was already present in Sacred Scripture and in the Old Testament. The stranger, the orphan, and the widow—do not forget this.
Then, abortion. Science says that at one month after conception, all the organs of a human being are present. Everything. Having an abortion is killing a human being. Whether you like the word or not, it’s murder. The Church is not closed-minded because it forbids abortion; the Church forbids abortion because it kills. It is murder; it is murder!
And we need to be clear about this: sending migrants away, not allowing them to grow, not letting them have life is something wrong, it is cruelty. Sending a child away from the womb of the mother is murder because there is life. And we must speak clearly about these things. “No, but however...” No “but however.” Both things are clear. The orphan, the stranger, and the widow—do not forget this.



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Today we celebrate the feast of the Hily Cross


La Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme si trova a Roma, nel Rione Esquilino, a ridosso delle Mura Aureliane e dell'Anfiteatro Castrense, tra la Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano e Porta Maggiore. La chiesa è al vertice del tridente formato da viale Carlo Felice, via di Santa Croce in Gerusale...

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