Advocates for trafficking victims say big events like the Super Bowl and events surrounding them are a “danger zone” for sex and labor trafficking and domestic violence.” 2023’s Super Bowl LVII will be played Feb. 12 between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
The Mass celebrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory came on the final day of the Jan. 28-31 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering. The meeting addressed workers’ rights, migrants and refugees, housing inequities, hunger and food insecurity, poverty, climate change, systemic racism, gun violence, restorative justice, abortion, domestic violence, and “pro-woman and pro-family policies.”
The ways Catholics can accompany pregnant women subjected to violence by their partners, and those who counsel abortion — was the subject of a Jan. 29 session of the 2023 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, “Peace Starts Here: Healing Wounds from Abortion and Domestic Violence.”
In a rare disagreement with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government, Ukrainian churches have criticized ratification of a Council of Europe Convention on combating violence against women, warning it risks imposing “gender ideology” on their war-torn country.
The U.S. bishops June 13 decried U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision that asylum seekers fleeing domestic or gang violence cannot find protection in the United States.
