Posted on 08/16/2015 3:16:40 PM PDT by jimbo123
After staking his early campaign on caustic and controversial remarks about undocumented immigrants, Donald J. Trump on Sunday outlined his plan to fix the country’s immigration system and deal with people who are in the country illegally.
The position paper, published on Mr. Trump’s website Sunday morning, centered on three principles. The first stated that “a nation without borders is not a nation” — a theme Mr. Trump has made a constant in his stump speeches — and called for a wall to be built along the southern border.
He also repeated his promise to make Mexico pay for the wall and laid out how he would do it: largely through increasing fees on border movement between the United States and Mexico.
“We will not be taken advantage of anymore,” the plan states.
Mr. Trump’s proposal also calls for strengthening the “enforcement arm” of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, to be paid for by “eliminating tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.”
Mr. Trump’s campaign released the plan moments after the candidate appeared in a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press,”
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I hope the Stump for Trump ladies will be issuing a new video on this first major Trump policy statement.
He is redoing the Romney smear team trashing the opposition.
Hosepop Wants the George Will, and Reince Prebiuis and the establishment crowd.
We don't want your your pals George Will, Brad Dayspring , Liz Mair,
Reince Prebius , and Bonehead and Mitchy.
Why do you want the DC establishment butt boy Scotty Walker who is owned by the Koch Brothers !
We don't want the RNC puppet like you !
You’ve gone an attacked the WRONG idiot..
but nobody is perfect..
Since when does being a Catholic imply that one must believe that the bishops, as a group, love the country, or have intelligent ideas, or care about something other than helping Democrat, pro-abortion politicians?
Because they don’t.
What specifically did I say that seemed to you inconsistent with Catholicism?
I thought the distinctive feature of Catholicism relates to church governance - a divinely appointed hierarchy of bishops, all answering to the Pope. To pooh pooh the pronouncements of these leaders seems inconsistent with the whole Catholic idea and system
Catholics believe that Jesus willed to found a hierarchical Church, with a college of bishops to replace the college of apostles after the apostles died, and one of these bishops to fulfill the function of Peter as the head of the college of bishops.
So, the Catholic Church teaches that the existence of a hierarchy in the Church is divinely willed. But the Catholic Church does NOT teach that God chooses each bishop, or the Pope. Repeat: The Catholic Church DOES NOT teach that God chooses the Pope, or each bishop.
It is important to undermine the popular superstition that “the Holy Spirit chooses the Pope.”
When the Pope and the bishops teach the Catholic Faith, Catholics are obliged to heed them.
The instant the Pope or bishops abuse their office by using it as a mere platform for “teaching” their personal views, Catholics are not merely entitled to ignore them, but obliged to object and correct them for abusing their authority.
The bishops in the U.S. have habitually, for decades, twisted the Church’s teaching in order to suppress the natural tendency of Catholics to vote for pro-life politicians, because the vast majority of bishops have been lifelong Democrats.
Thanks for your civil tone in reply. As a fellow Christian, I did not mean to sound taunting or disrespectful, just curious, so I hope my own comments are received in that light. I will say that your description of the laity’s right or even duty to disregard heterodox teachings sounds somewhat Protestant, because it gives the laity a role in interpreting and defining what’s orthodox and what isn’t.
By the way, I was a guest at a mass recently where the elderly priest spent his homily boasting about the extent to which the Catholic Church has arrived in American society compared to the days of his youth. He offered as one example, that there are “six Catholics on the Supreme Court”. In the wake of the marriage ruling by one of them, I was shocked at this boast, which betrayed more a loyalty to his cutch as a bureaucratic institution than loyalty to the One it is supposed to serve
Not really. When the laity object to what the current Pope or current bishops are saying, they are merely pointing to what the last ten, twenty, fifty, or 200 Popes said. And councils. Or, they are pointing out that the SUBJECT MATTER the Pope or bishops are talking about isn't even part of the Catholic Faith.
The Catholic Faith is a body of doctrine to which no Pope or bishop can add any new subject matter. When there has been development, it has been slow, and organic, and based on solid reasons or scholarship. But there have never been, and never will be, whole new chapter headings.
A perfect example is the Pope's assertion in his encyclical that the Earth is getting warmer.
Well, it just isn't! It hasn't warmed AT ALL for 20 years.
Now, not only is the Pope wrong, but he abuses his office by even making assertions about the temperature of the Earth, because there is NOTHING in the teaching of the Catholic Church about the temperature of the Earth.
The key word there is “elderly.” Sounds like the type who is still thrilled because we finally had a “Catholic” President. And WOULD have been thrilled again if the “Catholic” Ted Kennedy had ever made it to the White House.
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