St. Stephen Cathedral in Owensboro, Ky. Credit: Farragutful via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Denver Newsroom, Apr 30, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
An Owensboro, Kentucky priest says he is “on cloud nine” after receiving word that the Congregation for the .
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, leading U.S. bishops and the head of CRS urged the administration to grant 18-month Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to foreign nationals from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
“Current conditions prevent foreign nationals from returning safely, and managing their return would only add to existing challenges,” the letter states. “This is compounded with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which further strains limited resources on the ground and imposes an added layer of complication for return.”
The letter was led by Bishop Mario Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of Washington and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) migration committee, as well as Bishop David Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the USCCB’s international justice and peace committee, as well as Sean Callahan, president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services.
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Jane Lancaster, Ph.D., is an independent historian in Providence, and the author of Inquire Within: A Social History of the Providence Athenaeum. Contact her at jane@janelancaster.com
Rhode Island began its gradual abolition of slavery in 1784, but racial segregation meant it lacked institutions to care for Black people who were struggling. By the 1830s most Black people had been free for one or two generations, but all was not well for the poorest in their community.
Poverty was particularly widespread after the financial panic of 1837, yet recently established child welfare agencies at the time restricted their charity to white families. Black children had no ready institutional option other than the harsh municipal poor houses.