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Would the church not be incline enough to go as for as saying (despite the fact that the majority of illegals have broken our laws in pursuit of personal financial gain). This pursuit of personal financial gain, in fact would this not be considred ill gotten gains, obtained dishonestly or illegally. Doesn’t the church have a moral responsibility to advise illegals it is not biblically acceptable by the word of God to obtain ill gotten gains,dishonestly or illegally. Coming here for a better life does not exempt illegals from having to follow the same biblically commands that the church would tell us as citizens, we cannot do that , this is illegal and against the law. Shouldn’t the church be giving sermons on how the word of God applies to all equally and this means illegals too.
Isn’t this what churches are suppose to do preach the gospel to everyone on the same level ?

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI TO THE BISHOPS OF THE UNITED STATES (REGIONS XIV-XV AND THE EASTERN RITE) ON THEIR AD LIMINA VISIT
Friday, 18 May 2012

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"I would begin by praising your unremitting efforts, in the best traditions of the Church in America, to respond to the ongoing phenomenon of immigration in your country. The Catholic community in the United States continues, with great generosity, to welcome waves of new immigrants, to provide them with pastoral care and charitable assistance, and to support ways of regularizing their situation, especially with regard to the unification of families. A particular sign of this is the long-standing commitment of the American Bishops to immigration reform."
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2012/may/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20120518_bishops-us-fourteen_en.html

Pope Benedict XVI Backs U.S. Bishops' Commitment To Immigration Reform
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON 05/18/12 10:55 AM ET - AP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/pope-benedict-immigration-reform_n_1526954.html

Pope Benedict on immigration reform
By Father Tom Joyce, CMF
http://www.uscatholic.org/blog/2012/06/pope-benedict-immigration-reform#sthash.UXCkZJKn.dpuf