Learn the stories of trafficking victims, pope urges
Pope Francis encourages people to put themselves in the shoes of victims and understand the plight of many immigrants
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Pope Francis has encouraged people to put themselves in the shoes of victims of human trafficking.
Once a person learns about these victims experiences, it will be impossible to remain indifferent when we hear talk about boats adrift, ignored and even driven back from our shores, he wrote in the preface to a new book.
The pope s remarks appear in a book,
I Am Joy: A Cry of Freedom from the Slavery of Trafficking. The book, written in Italian, was to be released Jan. 27 by the Italian publishing house of the Society of St. Paul. The International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking is celebrated annually Feb. 8, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita. Publishers released the text of the pope s preface Jan. 21.
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Serenely peering out from stained-glass or standing atop pedestals while piously presenting the instruments of their martyrdom, the saints can often appear otherworldly in church art.
Carey Wallace’s new children’s book, “Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace and Courage,” shows that holy men and women whose miraculous deeds, charitable works and battles with armies, beasts and demons she chronicles with gusto also were what Wallace calls “relentlessly human.”
“The saints are often scared,” said Wallace, a novelist based in Brooklyn, New York. “The saints often don’t know what to do. The saints are often running away from responsibility. They don’t feel like they are qualified for what they’ve been asked to do. The saints are very, very much like us.”
Jan 17, 2021 catholic news service
A child opens to an illustration of St. Joan of Arc in Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace and Courage by Carey Wallace. (Credit: George P. Matysek Jr.,/Catholic Review via CNS.)
Carey Wallace s new children s book, Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace and Courage, shows that holy men and women whose miraculous deeds, charitable works and battles with armies, beasts and demons she chronicles with gusto also were what Wallace calls relentlessly human.
BALTIMORE Serenely peering out from stained-glass or standing atop pedestals while piously presenting the instruments of their martyrdom, the saints can often appear otherworldly in church art.
I built a cathedral in the land of Islam Exclusive interview with the just-retired Bishop Henri Coudray, a Jesuit missionary who spent the last 19 years as head of the tiny Catholic population in Mongo, Chad
The future bishop, Father Philippe Abbo, is of the same ethnic group - the Dadjo - as Saint Josephine Bakhita, the former slave who became a nun and was canonized by Pope John Paul II. (Photo by AMAURY HAUCHARD/AFP)
Bishop Henri Coudray is a French-born Jesuit who has lived in the north-central African country of Chad since the 1960s.
And for the last 19 years he s been the chief spiritual leader of Catholics in the Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo.