Rhina Guidos, Author at Crux

Hurricane Harvey complicates Washington battle over a border wall
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- September 2, 2017
President Donald Trump’s push for a wall to be built along the U.S. border with Mexico may have hit a new obstacle. Trump says now that U.S. taxpayers will pay for the wall and eventually Mexico will pay them back, but with the enormous expense associated with Hurricane Harvey, even that plan may not succeed in the budget process this year.
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Catholic groups are mobilizing to help in Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 28, 2017
As the extent of the damage being caused by Hurricane Harvey starts to become clear, Catholic organizations are preparing their plans of action to help those in need. The category 4 storm has caused severe damage in Texas and Louisiana. and at least 5 deaths have been attributed to the cyclone.
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Oklahoma set to welcome world for beatification of ‘ordinary’ native son
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 26, 2017
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, said the fact that someone as humble and from such ordinary beginnings as Father Stanley Rother was called to holiness and martyrdom, means “that all of us, no matter our beginnings, our circumstances, are called to holiness as well.”
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Bishop warns of ‘dumbed-down Gospel’ behind anti-immigrant stance

In an effort to deport more people than President Obama did, the Trump administration is focusing on immigrants who follow the rules and show up to their meeting with ICE to tell them their whereabouts. Criminals and people who pose a danger to society are too difficult to find so they are a lower priority.

Bishop attends ICE meeting for mother fearing separation from sick child

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso is working to stop the deportation of a woman who is the only caretaker for her bed-ridden 8-year-old daughter, who has bone cancer. Seitz made headlines in July because of a pastoral letter in which he denounced the “demonization of immigrants” and pleaded with others for compassion and solidarity.

Supporters of young migrants ask for DACA protection at Washington rally

DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is under attack this summer as people enrolled in it wait with anticipation and fear to see what President Trump will decide to do with it. He campaigned on ending it, but has wavered somewhat on that stance.