Angelus News | April 9, 2021 Vol 6 No 7

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Letters to the Editor
What ‘refugee’ crisis?
I feel your news brief on Page 5 of the Feb. 26 issue, “Biden lifts historically
low refugee limit,” was too political.
It is important to use statistics that show the correct numbers. In the month after
President Biden took office, encounters with migrants along the southern border
went up 28% from the month prior, and 174% from the same time last year.
It is also important to keep in mind that many of these supposed “refugees” are
crossing our border illegally.
Americans have always welcomed people in desperate need. Why aren’t we helping
the Christians leave Africa, where many are being killed? These are refugees.
President Trump slowed the influx of migrants to get a hold on the flow. Now, in one
month, the borders and aid stations are swamped.
Just because we are Catholic doesn’t mean we can’t help people legally. But what
“global crisis” was Susan Gunn, director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns,
referring to in the article?
— Maureen Lenicka, Ventura
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A special Mass for St. Joseph’s special year
Archbishop José H. Gomez
celebrated a special Mass for the
solemnity of St. Joseph March 19
at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the
Angels. The Mass was nationally
broadcast on the USCCB and LA
Catholics social media channels.
| VICTOR ALEMÁN
“We cannot stop doing
his work.”
~ Flávio Ferreira de Lima after the death of his
brother, Father Fernando de Lima Silva, who
drowned after saving a woman and child.
“I read, I pray, and I cook,
and I think.”
~ Archbishop Emeritus Charles Chaput of Philadelphia
on what retirement is like, in an interview on
AngelusNews.com.
“We can’t just reject Jesus
in the holy Eucharist.”
~ Irish pastor Father P.J. Hughes, who was fined by
the police for celebrating Mass with parishioners
present during the country’s COVID-19 lockdown.
“A society that sinks to
the level of its worst offenders
is not only hypocritical,
it also poisons
itself with an endless
cycle of vengeance.”
~ The New York Times editorial board in a
March 29 op-ed titled “Stop the executions,
President Biden.”
“In bluegrass music, the
three main themes are
God, murder, and unrequited
love.”
~ Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White, founding
member of the Dominican priest-led bluegrass
band “The Hillbilly Thomists.”
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“Lack of awareness does
not diminish worth.”
~ Bishop John Sherrington, auxiliary bishop for
the Diocese of Westminster on the UK’s decision
to allow 5-year-old Pippa Knight, who has acute
necrotizing encephalopathy, to die against her
mother’s wishes.
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