Posted on 09/01/2015 7:26:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Karla Perez loves Pope Francis. Like her, he’s a native Spanish speaker. He is also the first Latin American to lead the Catholic Church, and he talks easily about soccer and prefers public buses to luxury cars.
Most of all, though, Perez loves this pope because he has made better treatment of immigrants a centerpiece of his two-year-old papacy.
She hopes, as do many of the nearly 30 million Hispanic Catholics in the country, that this month’s visit by Francis will change the tone of the nation’s divisive immigration debate.
“I’m an immigrant myself, and I hear politicians saying they want to build higher walls. I can’t remember a time when it’s been this ugly,” said Perez, 31, an elementary school teacher who emigrated from El Salvador when she was a child and now attends Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Alexandria, Va.
Perez said that at a time when politicians are talking about mass deportations, “anchor babies” and revoking birthright citizenship, she is eager to hear the pope’s “gentle, kind voice that makes you feel like you are going to be okay.”
On Sept. 23, the morning after the pope lands in Washington on a flight from Cuba, thousands of Latinos — 50,000 or more, by some estimates — will walk, take the bus or ride the Metro to the White House following special sunrise Masses held across the region in Spanish. The pope is expected to greet the crowds outside after meeting with President Obama.
Francis will hold high-profile meetings with Latinos and immigrants in each of the three U.S. cities he is visiting — Washington, New York and Philadelphia — and Catholic leaders hope he urges elected officials to fix the system that has left 11 million undocumented people living in the United States in the shadows.
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Immigrants are Not Illegrants..
OMG What the heck is that?
Pope = Che ??
Have 11 million non Hispanic, non Catholic illegally migrate in to a Hispanic Catholic country and see the story change...
Last time that happen it was Islam in to Spain...
Trump is our El Sid
I suspect the WaPo had to work pretty hard to find that.
Catholic leaders hope he urges elected officials to fix the system that has left 11 million undocumented people living in the United States in the shadows.
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11 million? When are they ever going to change that number? It’s 3 times that many now.
If the Vatican insists on getting involved in US politics, then tax them as a political organization.
“I’m an immigrant myself.....said Perez.
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Legal or illegal?
Illegal aliens are to immigrants
as
Burglars are to house guests
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Apparently not to Ms. Perez.
WWJD. I have a feeling Jesus would tell Illegals to GO HOME and respect the law. Crossing the border and stealing benefits in the US is not something Jesus would have condoned.
It might help if the pope also spoke to his own Latin American parishioners who are here illegally or planning to come here illegally the difference between legal and illegal. If he needs counsel for this task, he could take it from two of the Christian Church’s greatest pastors: Paul, Romans 13:1-7 or Peter, 1 Peter 2:13-17. Something tells me that they knew more about injustice, persecution, and being aliens than he has ever dreamed, and still they remained pastors. In other words, he could do the job he has been given, that of a pastor and not that of a left-leaning social worker.
as best as I can figger ... karla perez ... elementary teacher
as best as I can figger ... karla perez ... elementary teacher
If the Pope attacks Trump, he will discover the same thing already discovered by Perry, Kasich, Rubio, Bush...
1) Attack Trump
2) Die
Open borders for Vatican City! No walls or restrictions necessary! Lets see how long it takes to cram all 110 acres and make off with all the gold!
Imigration is destroying Europe... and it’s churches are empty.
Perhaps the Pope will focus on the abject moral evil in plain sight in this country. I hope so.
“Pope, you’re fired”.
While they search in vain, for toilet tissue.
That Marxist peronista moron, pretending to be a Catholic Pope, needs to shut his liberation theology pie hole. There, Francine - judge that!
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