Posted on 05/14/2014 10:29:36 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, the keynote speaker at the 10th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, issued a call for immigration reform. O'Malley recalled his early years of ordained ministry as a Capuchin Franciscan priest at the Spanish Catholic Center in Washington, not far from the hotel where the breakfast was held.
The work there "was an uplifting experience in my life," he recalled in remarks made Tuesday at the breakfast. "Most of my parishioners were undocumented workers, refugees from the wars in Central America," he said. "We received thousands of immigrants from all over Latin America" during that era, he added.
"They were not evil invaders but people seeking to feed and clothe their families in safety, much like the immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Germany and Poland."
O'Malley said a just solution for those immigrants would be similar to that for Jean Valjean, the protagonist of Les Miserables: "Not to punish them but to initiate new and more just laws to replace a system that is broken and woefully inadequate."
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How about the Catholic Church concern itself with more pressing issues, like the plight of Christians who languish under the constant threat of extermination in muslim hellholes?
There. Fixed it for you.
Thanks.
Fits in nicely with the Pope’s socialist agenda.
Guess they want to lay off all the American cooks at the Diocese ...
They’re pandering pure and simple...just like politicians.
No surprise the US church has always involved itself on the side of the left
The Cardinal is an enemy of the American People.
IB4TNRC
Immigrants, no matter their origin, vote 70% pro-abortion.
Pro-abortion politicians are psychopaths and traitors.
Cardinal O’Malley is an enemy of my country and my Church.
It is a disgrace that the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast even allowed O’Malley in the door. He, Wuerl, Dolan, Chaput, and most other bishops insist that their priests commit the mortal sin of giving Communion to pro-aborts.
Only bishops who are publicly known to be obeying Canon 915 should be invited to the National Prayer Breakfast, the March for Life, etc. All the bishops who are obstinately persisting in the mortal sins of scandal and sacrilege should be excluded.
Liar. Those people came here legally.
Each one of those group of people first went to ELLIS ISLAND, to register themselves, before entering this country. They didn’t enter this country ILLEGALLY. That’s the difference.
He's the douchebag that keeps supporting communion and funerals for pro abortion Catholic politicians.
Oh well,there are creeps in every religion, but he's up there with Bin Laden.
Italian immigrants
Irish immigrants
German immigrants
Haven’t you ever heard of the discrimination against immigrants? Especially for the Italian and Irish?
Catholic Need Not Apply
But he's a friend of Francis.
IF the good cardinal actually meant LEGAL immigrants you might have a point
Actually, it was the Irish Catholics who discriminated against Italians and Poles...
I would like to see your numbers for protestant Christian immigrants, for instance we know that number is not anywhere close to true for Hispanic voters who are Protestant.
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