To care for the sheep, confront the wolf, says retired Mexican bishop
Jan 7, 2021 catholic news service
Retired Bishop Raúl Vera López of Saltillo, Mexico, waves to a taxi driver as he walks to his residence after celebrating Mass in Saltillo Dec. 13, 2020. (Credit: David Agren/CNS.)
In a homily during Advent, retired Bishop Raúl Vera López of Saltillo brought up the burgeoning local wine industry something of a local success story in his diocese.
SALTILLO, Mexico In a homily during Advent, retired Bishop Raúl Vera López of Saltillo brought up the burgeoning local wine industry something of a local success story in his diocese.
Students from MDQ Academy Islamic School in Brentwood, N.Y., and St. Anthony’s High School in nearby Huntington, N.Y., listen to speakers at an interfaith event at the Catholic school on April 26, 2017. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)
“I told my children it is not safe for us here. It is not safe for us until this election is over, and maybe not even after.” My neighbor Widad shook her head and absent-mindedly touched her hijab. “We came here nine years ago to escape from a dictator, and now here we are with a different one. Why not just go back to South Sudan?”
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Hay que seguir andando, no más.
Hay que seguir andando.” These words filled a high school auditorium in March 2020 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where Christians from Central and South America and the Caribbean gathered for the 11th Continental Meeting of ecclesial base communities (CEBs), also known as Christian base communities in English. The refrain comes from a contemporary hymn penned by an Argentine composer and ratified by Latin American CEBs. “We just have to keep going, that’s all,” the lyrics prod. “We just have to keep going.” At the gathering, seminars and working-group sessions complemented worship, singing, and reunions among friends in an effort to fulfill the meeting’s general goal: “To echo the cries of the poor and of the earth in order to recreate challenging ministries for the care, protection, and defense of a dignifie