• Significantly build up nonviolent practices in
skills training, advocating for nonviolence and the
investment of resources
• Offer accompaniment and protection to vulner-
able populations and other marginalized persons
along with all of God’s creation
• Build up alternatives to war and to other forms of
direct violence and to move away from justifying war
Questions
Let us pray and reflect on the following questions:
How do I intentionally practice nonviolence in my
life at home and in the work place?
How have we, the Missionaries of the Precious
Blood, used both our charism and experience as reli-
gious leaders, to significantly build up practices and a
culture of nonviolence?
In what specific ways have we responded and can
we respond to this resolution as individual members
and Companions and leaders of faith communities?
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Permanently separated. Workers who are not al-
lowed to touch or hug the children under their care.
In one shelter, the children are required each morn-
ing to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance in a
language they don’t know.
Some parents are now being told that they can
have their child back if they sign a document forgo-
ing a court appearance. Children as hostages.
President Trump has now explicitly advocated
depriving undocumented immigrants of their due-
process rights, arguing that people who cross the
border into the United States illegally were invad-
ers and must immediately be deported without trial
or an appearance before a judge in violation of the
Fifth Amendment.
This policy is traumatizing children and families,
many of them fleeing violence and danger in their
homelands. No mercy, no compassion, no nuance.
A seeming aversion to new people coming into the
country—from an administration which is almost
all white, wealthy, and male. Racist and nationalist
policies which seek to limit even legal immigra-
tion—and make it “merit based,” which is code
for people from the “right countries.” To quote the
president: “Why can’t we have more people from
Norway?” (Worldwide there are about 13 million
displaced Syrians in need of humanitarian assis-
tance. In the first three months of this year, the
United States has accepted 11.)
Racism is racism and needs to be called out.
Taking children away from their parents and using
them as pawns is reprehensible and evil. Sometimes
right is right and wrong is wrong, and there is no
hiding spot in between. As Precious Blood people,
we are called to speak out against these evils. We are
called to act—whether it is speaking out when we
hear our neighbors echo the administration’s hate,
contacting our representatives to encourage change,
or providing comfort and aid to refugees. As our
province leadership said in a recent statement: “The
soul of our nation is at stake. When we treat refu-
gees with contempt rather than compassion, our
souls are at risk.” We can help make our families
and parishes, our states and our country, beacons
instead of barriers. Shining places on the hill where
“the doors are open to anyone with the will and the
heart to get there.”
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