The New Wine Press vol 25 no 2 October 2016

Alameda, California Companion An Nguyen siging the 2003 Corporate Stance Against Gun Violence Our Corporate Stances by Gabino Zavala, Coordinator for Justice & Peace Ministry As a Precious Blood Community—Members and Companions—our corporate stances are an important part of who we are and how we live out this reality. We do not make corporate stances casually. We take them very seriously. Taking a corporate stance challenges us to live out our charism as Precious Blood ministers. Corporate stances articulate who we are as Catholic Christians. It is an opportunity to lend our prophetic voices to the voiceless, the oppressed and the unheard. It helps us understand who we are and what we are about in the public square. Corporate stances give us direction to put our Precious Blood spirituality into action in our daily lives. At our last Precious Blood Assembly in June we adopted a Corporate Stance on Just and Compassionate Comprehensive Reform of our Immigration System. This corporate stance is an opportunity for us as a community and as individuals to raise our voices for those in our communities today who have no voice, to live out the Gospel and to provide opportunities to put 6 • The New Wine Press • October 2016 into action our Precious Blood charisms of reconciliation and hospitality. In the corporate stance called on legislators to work together to establish compassionate and comprehensive immigration reform legislation. We called on our legislators to include the following points: • Provide a timely path to legal status for undocumented persons in the country • Preserve family unity as a cornerstone for our national immigration system • Provide for just and legal paths for immigrant laborers to come and work in the U.S. • Restore due process protections for our immigration enforcement policies • Address the root causes of migration within sending countries and explore long-term solutions Our Justice and Peace Committee will continue to develop an action plan as directed by our members

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