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Jesuit Chief: No Country Has the Right to Turn Away Migrants ROME — The superior general of the Jesuits declared this week that no country has the right to turn away migrants, claiming the land belongs to everyone. “The challenge for a country that receives migrants is not only reception, but integration, which means receiving the contribution that immigrants bring,” said Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa Abascal in an interview with Tempi.it.“They come to make a contribution, which is greater than what they receive from the host country,” he claimed, seemingly without evidence.

An international organization of Catholic exorcists said Thursday that the existence of Satan as a real and personal being is a truth of Christian doctrine. “The real existence of the devil, as a personal subject who thinks and acts and has made the choice of rebellion against God, is a truth of faith that has always been part of Christian doctrine,” the International Association of Exorcists said in an Aug. 22 press release. The organization’s release came in response to recent remarks on the devil from Jesuit superior general Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, which the organization called “grave and...

[Catholic Caucus] Is Jesuit superior general committing heresy?Canon lawyer Ed Peters asks about denial of devil as personal reality Father Sosa (right) upon election as superior general. (photo by Alpha Sigma Nu) The existence of the devil as a personal reality, and not merely as a symbol of evil, is an article of faith (Ott, Fundamentals 126-131; CCC 395, 2851). Denial of an article of faith is an element of the canonical crime of heresy (1983 CIC 751), an act punishable by measures up to and including excommunication, dismissal from the clerical state, and/or loss of ecclesiastical office (1983 CIC 1364, 194).Rev. Arturo Sosa, S.J.,...

Jesuit superior general: ‘We have formed symbolic figures such as the devil to express evil’ by Staff Reporter posted Thursday, 1 Jun 2017 Fr Arturo Sosa Abascal, superior general of the Jesuits (CNS) Fr Sosa also said that if there were women deacons, 'more doors' could open afterwardsChristians have “formed” the devil as a way of expressing evil, the Jesuit superior general has said.In an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Fr Arturo Sosa said: “Christians believe that we are made in the image and likeness of God, and God is free, but He always chooses to do good because He...

Hours after Cardinal Bergoglio was elected Pope, Rorate was the first to bring you inside information from Argentina on what to expect (The Horror: A Buenos Aires Journalist describes Bergoglio). Now, Rorate, surrounded by friends around the globe, has been contacted by a Venezuelan source, eager to tell the world what exactly to expect of the new Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (the Pope's own religious society), Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, based on his experience in his native land, now wrecked by the Socialism brought on, in great measure, by Marxist "Catholics". In reality, the current situation in Venezuela,...

EDINBURG — Six people accused of a February drug-related slaying faced capital murder charges Thursday morning. The sextet of suspects are allegedly part of a local drug smuggling group that ordered a hit of one of their own after he allegedly stole a load of marijuana delivered to a customer in February, investigators said. Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies found Gilberto Aguilar beaten and shot to death on Feb. 6 in a remote field north of Palmview. Investigators believe Aguilar was kidnapped, beaten with brass knuckles and fatally shot after he stole a load of marijuana. Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño...

CHICAGO (AP)—Former Chicago Cubs star Ryne Sandberg says Sammy Sosa(notes) doesn’t belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame. “I don’t think so,” Sandberg told ESPN Radio 1000 in Chicago on Tuesday. “Part of being in the Hall of Fame, they use the word integrity in describing a Hall of Famer, in the logo of the Hall of Fame, and I think there are going to be quite a few players that are not going to get in.” The New York Times last week reported that Sosa was one of 104 players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in an...

A congressional committee will look into former baseball slugger Sammy Sosa’s denial that he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs in light of a report that he tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003. The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Democratic Rep. Edolphus Towns of New York, says that the committee takes seriously suggestions that a witness had been misleading.

DEDHAM, Mass. -- The man who stabbed his own lawyer at his rape trial earlier this week returned to court Thursday under heavy security, where he aggressively asked the attorney: "You still breathing?" Lawyer John Courtney has withdrawn from the trial of Che Sosa, who allegedly stabbed him with a sharp, makeshift weapon made out of plexi-glass Tuesday. Superior Court Judge Charles Grabau also excused himself from the case because he witnessed the attack.

OAXACA, Mexico — Police arrested the symbolic leader of a six-month protest movement that took over the southern city of Oaxaca and left at least nine dead, hours after he said at a news conference in Mexico City that he'd gone to the capital to negotiate a peaceful solution. Flavio Sosa, whose heavyset, bearded presence became an emblem of the leftist Oaxaca People's Assembly, was arrested late Monday on charges related to the barricades, vandalism and irregular detentions carried out by some protesters. "Sosa ... is known for his use of violence, damaging private property and public byways, and also...

A local sports radio station here in Denver mentioned this recently - Give it back to Maris Help restore the MLB homerun record to the rightful owner http://www.giveitbacktomaris.com/This website is designed for the sole purpose of setting the Major League Baseball Single Season Home Run Record straight. With the acknowledgement of an era of baseball where the legitimacy of every record is in doubt, we believe there is only one solution to the ongoing steroid controversy and mistrust that not only surrounds the game but has created doubt in the game for the last 16 years. That solution is for...

NEW YORK (SI.com) -- Beginning in 1998 with injections in his buttocks of Winstrol, a powerful steroid, Barry Bonds took a wide array of performance-enhancing drugs over at least five seasons...*SNIP* ...By 2001, when Bonds broke Mark McGwire's single-season home-run record (70) by belting 73, Bonds was using two designer steroids referred to as the Cream and the Clear, as well as insulin, human growth hormone, testosterone decanoate (a fast-acting steroid known as Mexican beans) and trenbolone, a steroid created to improve the muscle quality of cattle. BALCO tracked Bonds' usage with doping calendars and folders -- detailing drugs, quantities,...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Sammy Sosa will be taking aim at American League pitchers and the short left-field wall at Camden Yards this summer. The trade that sent Sosa to the Baltimore Orioles from the Chicago Cubs was finalized Wednesday after commissioner Bud Selig approved the deal and the slugger passed his physical. Chicago received second baseman Jerry Hairston Jr. and two minor leaguers, second baseman Mike Fontenot and right-handed pitcher Dave Crouthers. "I had a great time in Chicago," Sosa during a news conference at Camden Yards. "This is my new house, and I love it." Under terms of the...

Sammy Sosa is close to taking his home run hop all the way to Baltimore. The Chicago Cubs are just a few steps away from trading the unhappy slugger to the Orioles, several high-ranking baseball officials told The Associated Press. Medical tests and approval from commissioner Bud Selig and the players' association remain unresolved, the officials said Friday night, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Cubs would pay a substantial part of Sosa's $17 million salary this season, the executives said. In exchange, Chicago would receive second baseman Jerry Hairston Jr. and at least two prospects. Sosa has 574 homers,...

BALTIMORE -- Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa has at least one high-profile supporter who has endured his share of media scrutiny while leading an entire country. Former president Bill Clinton told Sosa to hang in there. Sosa had his eight-game suspension reduced by one game by Major League Baseball on Wednesday, a day after having a hearing that included Sosa's agent, Tom Reich, and Cubs president Andy MacPhail speaking on Sosa's behalf. Sosa spoke candidly before playing Tuesday against the Baltimore Orioles about the fallout he expects from using a corked bat last week in a game against the Tampa...

Sammy Sosa recently got a sympathetic phone call from a guy who knows something about being ripped an lampooned.Bill Clinton told Sosa to hang in there.Sosa will learn today if he, agent Tom Reich or Cubs President Andy MacPhail spoke persuasively enough at his hearing Tuesday with Major League Baseball officials to have his eight game suspension reduced by a game or two.Sources said Major Leage Bseball will probably release its decision by mid morning.

Folks, this just ain't the Democrats Year! This happened last Monday before Sammy's mistake! Print this off and send it to your friends! SPEECH OF HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2003 Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H. Res. 195, a resolution to congratulate Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs for hitting 500 major league home runs. There is no doubt that Mr. Sosa's exploits on the baseball diamond will one day earn him a place in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. There...

Yankees at Wrigley, tickets going for more than $1000, Wood goes up against his idol, and Clemons within reach of two major milestones.

THE WAY I SEE IT I look at my scorecard from Tuesday night's Cubs game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and it's almost funny. My blue-pen notations go through the Devil Rays' first four batters--Julio Lugo, Marlon Anderson, Rocco Baldelli, Aubrey Huff--and in my sloppy, semi-disinterested scrawl show that the players got one hit between them in the first inning but did not score. Then I have the Cubs' Mark Grudzielanek getting hit by a pitch and going to third on Alex Gonzalez's double. Corey Patterson has a ''K'' in his box. And the next batter, Sammy Sosa, has...

COOPERSTOWN, New York-Tests conducted on five of Sammy Sosa's game bats donated to the National Basball Hall of Fame revealed no cork, unlike the infmaous one he used Tuesday night, the museum announced Thursday.The Hall of Fame had X-Rays taken of three bats Wednesday, and CT scans of two others on Thursday.MConducted by a radiologist at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, the tests were negative.