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A Cross of Human Bodies
Rose Marie Berger

I spent five hours as a guest of the U.S. Capitol Police last
week. It was hot, really hot. And those plastic handcuffs leave
bruises.

I was one of 71 Catholics arrested by the U.S. Capitol Police in
the rotunda of the Russell Senate building in Washington, D.C.,
for "crowding, obstructing, or incommoding" while praying the
rosary. My prayer was -- and is -- to end the warehousing of
immigrant children in cages -- 63,624 of whom have been
apprehended by border patrol at the southwestern border
between October 2018 and June 2019 and seven of whom
have died after being in federal custody since September. More
than a dozen Catholic orders and organizations
sponsored the event. Seven Catholic
bishops sent letters of support.

I've been arrested more than 30 times for nonviolent civil
disobedience, beginning when I was in high school. It is one way
to say "no" to inhuman laws, to show how to build a
"'moral frontier' in one's own identity, by openly and
publicly challenging authorities who [are] practicing inhuman
orders," as Mexican Gandhian strategist and Catholic
Pietro Ameglio puts it.

When laws become so egregious that life and creation are at risk,
then the moral imperative is clear: Disobedience in the face of
what is inhuman is a personal, religious, and social virtue to
increase the good.

We were in the Russell Senate building to pierce the veil of
morally isolated political leaders who are caging immigrant
children.

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