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Bishop McElroy: Discrimination Against Muslims 'Unconscionable'
The National Catholic Reporter ^ | 3/10/17 | Heidi Schlumpf

Posted on 03/12/2017 1:06:51 PM PDT by marshmallow

Catholics must "condemn unequivocally" anti-Muslim prejudice in the United States, including in our own church communities, San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy told a national meeting of Muslims and Catholics Wednesday, March 8.

McElroy, co-chair of the West Coast Catholic-Muslim Dialogue of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was part of a two-day national meeting of three regional dialogue groups at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago March 8-9. Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich is chair of the national dialogue.

In his public remarks, McElroy decried the "intolerable exclusion and marginalization, which both the followers of Islam and Christians are facing in our tormented world."

"It is unconscionable that in the United States, in the 21st century, one of the great world religions is caricatured, misrepresented and despised so widely in our culture," he said about followers of Islam. "It is even more appalling that Muslims have now become the object of government actions, carefully and deliberately designed in laws to target a specific religious community."

Noting that Catholics had been the victims of "extreme vetting" earlier in U.S. history and that Christians face persecution in the Middle East today, McElroy also urged all Muslims "to be vocal and unified in their condemnation of Christian violence in predominantly Muslim societies."

Although the U.S. faces a threat from extremists who have distorted Islam, McElroy said, "By linking the Muslim community to that threat in a discriminatory manner, we undermine our national security and dishonor our national heritage."

The two-day meeting included private meetings of 33 representatives from the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and West Coast Muslim-Catholic Dialogues, as well as the public event where McElroy and Sherman Jackson of the University of Southern California spoke. The event was livestreamed on Facebook and attracted viewers from Singapore, the Philippines, Mexico and South America.

In his remarks, McElroy.........

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1 posted on 03/12/2017 1:06:51 PM PDT by marshmallow
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"It is unconscionable that in the United States, in the 21st century, one of the great world religions is caricatured, misrepresented and despised so widely in our culture," he said about followers of Islam. "It is even more appalling that Muslims have now become the object of government actions, carefully and deliberately designed in laws to target a specific religious community." Me and mine often refer to the National Catholic Distorter. CINO...
2 posted on 03/12/2017 1:11:58 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: marshmallow

McElroy is really trying to get a red hat from Francis.


3 posted on 03/12/2017 1:12:27 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: marshmallow

This guy has his eye on being named the Archbishop of Los Angeles and being made a Cardinal by the like minded Pope Francis. He should meet with the families of the San Bernardino victims or the families of the victims of the barbaric jihadists and the over three thousand documented Muslim suicide bombers. At the core of political correctness is delusion.


4 posted on 03/12/2017 1:14:32 PM PDT by allendale
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To: marshmallow

Tolerating the intolerant doing the intolerable.


5 posted on 03/12/2017 1:15:52 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: marshmallow

I am Catholic but I will continue to look at muslims as the enemy. They have no place in the western world. They are incompatible with Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. They are inbred, backward, ignorant, dirty heathens who should not be among us.


6 posted on 03/12/2017 1:17:29 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: marshmallow

I walked away from this corrupt church when I lived in California in the 1980’s because of this left-wing bull crap.

If this left-wing “bishop” Robert McElroy ever gets beheaded by a muzzie, the needle on my give-a-crap meter will not budge.


7 posted on 03/12/2017 1:17:33 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: coon2000

Concur, doing what they do for 1400 years, they have a track record.

We have already had 2 wars with them.


8 posted on 03/12/2017 1:21:13 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: marshmallow

“I have not written you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.” I John 2:21,22

“If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a divine curse.” I Cor 16:22


9 posted on 03/12/2017 1:23:32 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: coon2000

The Catholic Church is a wonderful, heroic institution that has repeatedly saved the West and humanity from the horrors of that totalitarian monstrosity, Islam. This ridiculous excuse for an “archbishop” is repudiating the Church’s noble history.


10 posted on 03/12/2017 1:26:13 PM PDT by libstripper (nd)
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To: marshmallow

Maybe when muslims start policing the radical acts of their adherents, their countries wont be stigmatized as supporting terrorism

and their countries wont be hellholes driving people to emigrate to countries that observe Judeao-Christian values


11 posted on 03/12/2017 1:27:43 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Please try telling that to a Middle Eastern Christian.


12 posted on 03/12/2017 1:34:33 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: ebb tide

I’m sure muslims are being told this crap in their mosques about Christians too SARC


13 posted on 03/12/2017 1:35:09 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: marshmallow

um...

sorry “bishop”

but it is not ungodly to stand up to Satan and his minions in the world domination satanic death cult known as Islam.


14 posted on 03/12/2017 1:39:27 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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McElroy summed up in three abbreviated words: POS.

Watch how both Mass attendance and contributions drop drastically in the San Diego Diocese.

Quoting the late great Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen:

“WHO IS GOING TO SAVE OUR CHURCH? NOT OUR BISHOPS, NOT OUR PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS. IT IS UP TO THE PEOPLE. YOU HAVE THE MINDS, THE EYES, THE EARS TO SAVE THE CHURCH. YOUR MISSION IS TO SEE THAT YOUR PRIESTS ACT LIKE PRIESTS, YOUR BISHOPS, LIKE BISHOPS, AND YOUR RELIGIOUS ACT LIKE RELIGIOUS


15 posted on 03/12/2017 1:41:54 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: marshmallow

Some very large fraction wants to kill me.


16 posted on 03/12/2017 1:44:10 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: marshmallow

Hey bish, it’s not a religion. It’s a violent death cult. If you would discriminate against nazis, you should discriminate here too.


17 posted on 03/12/2017 1:46:43 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: heterosupremacist

Nope. no can do. Islam is purely political and pure Evil. It is not a religion.


18 posted on 03/12/2017 1:47:10 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Biggirl
Please try telling that to a Middle Eastern Christian.

Can't.. no espeakee de English.

Try all day and twice on Sunday but they don't speak English.

19 posted on 03/12/2017 1:52:52 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: marshmallow

Why would anyone ever, harbor prejudice towards muslims?


20 posted on 03/12/2017 2:01:54 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Agenda driven news is fake news.)
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