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Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin has launched an appeal to Catholics to voluntarily forgo their Second Amendment rights by refusing to bear arms. “It’s true that we have a second amendment right to bear arms, but rights always involve responsibilities — in this case, the responsibility to protect the innocent and to secure public safety and good order,” the cardinal declares in a recent pastoral letter . “The mass shootings we are witnessing almost weekly now are a grave threat to the lives and well-being of all people.” In what he calls his “most challenging and controversial proposal,” Tobin urges “voluntary self-restraint” involving the waiving of the right to purchase and own firearms. “Let’s voluntarily set aside our rights in order to witness the truth that only peace, and never violence, is the way to build a free society that is lived concretely in our homes, our neighborhoods, our communities, our nation and our world,” he writes. “I honestly believe it is the best thing … [Read more...] about Newark Cardinal Urges Faithful to Forgo 2nd Amendment Rights

See the article in its original context from November 3, 1985 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. IT WAS ABOUT 6:30 IN THE MORNING WHEN THE shooting started. On a jungle ridge dotted with coconut palms, more than 50 members of the New People's Army, the Communist rebels in the Philippines, were getting ready for breakfast at a makeshift camp in Sorsogon Province, some 240 miles southeast of Manila (map, page 42). They had finished a half-hour of calisthenics and drills, and the … [Read more...] about INSIDE THE PHILIPPINE INSURGENCY

See the article in its original context from April 13, 1999 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Justo Rodriguez Santos, a Cuban poet who became disenchanted with Fidel Castro in the 1960's, exiled himself from his native land and became an advertising executive in the United States, died on Wednesday at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan. He was 83. Dr. Rodriguez Santos was a minor member of Origenes, a prominent group of writers and painters founded by the poet Jose Lezema Lima in the 1930's and loosely linked to the American poet Wallace Stevens. The name Origenes was a play on words meaning both origins and a church father; the group's work was strongly influenced by the Roman Catholic faith. Origenes was also the name the artists chose for an influential literary magazine they published from 1944 to 1954. ''It was a very important journal in the … [Read more...] about Justo Rodriguez Santos, 83, Cuban Poet in Self-Imposed Exile

The United States experiences so many mass shootings that journalists do not usually linger long after the attacks. Reporters and photographers move on to other stories, while the families and friends of the victims continue to grieve. One year ago today, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Tamir Kalifa, an independent photojournalist based in Austin, traveled to Uvalde shortly after the shootings — but he kept coming back. Tamir temporarily moved to Uvalde to live alongside the victims’ families, renting a 320-square-foot shipping container converted into a home. We’re devoting today’s newsletter to some of the photographs Tamir has taken over the past year and to excerpts from his interviews with families. “The grieving cycles do not match the media cycles,” Tamir told us. “We move on, but families don’t.” Marking the holidays Xavier “X.J.” Lopez, 10, loved Christmas. He loved going to Uvalde’s annual extravaganza, an … [Read more...] about A Year in Uvalde

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for May 25 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Fulgence Kayishema, a police officer accused of orchestrating the killings of over 2,000 people at a church during the Rwandan genocide, has been arrested in South Africa after spending 22 years as a fugitive. Kayishema assumed a false identity after fleeing justice in 2001, an endeavor that remained successful until his capture in a multinational fugitive tracking operation. "[Kayishema's] arrest gives the survivors hope that other fugitives still at large will be arrested too," said Naphtal Ahishakiye, executive secretary of Ibuka, a Rwandan genocide survivors' organization. One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's genocide, a police officer suspected of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 people at a church nearly three decades ago, has been arrested in South Africa after 22 years on the run, a … [Read more...] about Fugitive Rwandan police officer charged in killings of over 2,000 during 1994 genocide

NAIROBI, Kenya — WHEN the Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina published his acclaimed memoir three years ago, he concealed an important part of his life from the public eye. Last Saturday, he unveiled “a lost chapter” of the book on the Internet titled, “I am a homosexual, mum.” The chapter, about missing the opportunity to tell his mother before she died, is intensely personal. The response has been extremely public, a “ gay bombshell ” in the words of the newspaper The Daily Nation. That is because, as a successful author, publisher, journalist and commentator, Mr. Wainaina, 43, has become one of the most prominent Africans ever to come out publicly. He did so at a moment when the issue is being fiercely debated here in sub-Saharan Africa. Even as gay rights have gained ground in the United States and other Western nations, Africa has in some cases moved backward, with several countries increasing penalties against gays. Nigeria’s president this month signed into law a … [Read more...] about Writer Tells Africa What He Couldn’t Tell ‘Mum’