Posted on 08/04/2014 3:35:38 PM PDT by shortstop
After twenty-eight days away from this desk I returned this past Sunday with pleasant memories and not too many tasks sitting in front of me.
Arthritis is beginning to take its toll on me, in the feet, hands, knees, elbows, etc. and I face a schedule for the coming year that in most ways is even more challenging than this last year which I found very challenging. Everyone, uniformly and universally, counsels me to slow down, take it easy, and then presents me with some event where my presence is absolutely necessary so for me, like for many others of you, the proverbial “road to hell is paved with good intentions.” We’ll see. But what I wish to reflect upon in this blog entry is far more difficult and sadder than anything I can say about myself, the diocese, or even the Church.
I have asked our Catholic Charities to consult with Migration and Refugee Services division of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to see how many of the unaccompanied children mostly from Guatemala and Honduras we might be able to temporarily resettle. As you know, parents of those two countries are doing everything they can to send their children to the United States to escape possible death, torture and abuse in their homes towns and cities. Gang violence is so bad in those situations that even if the children do escape but are captured and sent back, they are highly subject to even greater risk of death just for having attempted to escape. The media has done a very good job of portraying the evil at home and critics of US immigration policy have done a very bad job of painting a true picture of the situation. No parent wants to turn their children at an outrageous price over to a suspect entrepreneur who promises to deliver the children through Mexico and across the US border. But their fear for their children’s lives leaves them little other options. It is a replay of “Operation Pedro Pan” when Cuban parents entrusted their children to a unsure future in the US as Fidel Castro began his reign in their country but a major difference between then and this situation is that the Cuban parents knew there was a program or people on the receiving end who would care for their kids until family reunification was possible. It is also a replay in miniature of the countless tens of thousands of mostly Catholic Vietnamese families who braved the dangerous waters of the South China Sea to escape the North Vietnamese communists taking over the South after we brought the flag out and surrendered. In that instance, the resettlement was a reflection of our national guilt and shame.
What is happening now along the border with Mexico is not the same as the steady flow of “illegal immigrants” which has led to the national discussion of immigration policy for which the majority of the House of Representatives has no heart. The “humanitarian quotient” of the unaccompanied minors we see coming our way cries out to heaven for a humanitarian and not a politically timed or motivated response. It is something our Church has responded to in the past, something which we know how to do, and something which we should be doing. If those kids need our help, I am ready to ask everyone in this diocese who possibly can to help me give them a temporary home which will be safe, secure, and free of shame. Shame on those who would kill, maim and torture children and their parents in their home land simply in the name and as a form of gang violence and shame on their own government for allowing it to happen. Shame on those elected representatives in our country who for seemingly reasons of political gamesmanship and an upcoming election turn a deaf ear to the cries of these kids. And shame on us if we stand all the day idle. Their parents want them back but until then, will we be willing to be the hands of a compassionate and loving Lord?
As that song from LES MISERABLES goes, “will you join in this crusade?”
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Could not be posted as it is Gannett.
REFORMATION II
PRESS RELEASE for DEMO:
http://stopthemagnet.bmetrack.com/c/v?e=4ECF1D&c=12F28&t=1&l=31BD6C3&email=IrF%2B3BD7xrttLeZ5rS0n0AwHGIWkPLCK&relid
Is this the same Bishop Lynch who refused to help Terri Schaivo when she needed his help the most?
How many will he be housing in his rectory?
They’re all doing this. Even on a military bad recently the catholic chaplain preached that we are all... I don’t know, something unconstitutional that I’m too embarrassed to write
He is a retired Ltc or so
Just spent the entire day writing and addressing copying and pasting articles citations from the catechism citations that the two from the USCCB in charge of this policy were both born in Mexico to mexican parent
They’re not allowed to affect policy as immigrants to start and they are not sworn to defend the constitution without which we won’t be cable to help anyone certainly not our kids whom we blame for everything while we as typical baby boomers indent them to tge point of drowning
Could anyone interested reading this just look up google catechism 2241 in its entirety comment on it and send to your catholic clergy. Even anonymously
They are tremendously misguided misinformed and completely wrong on this issue
Indebt
Since when is lawlessness a Christian virtue.
Dear Bishop,
We are too poor to take in new residents. We already have Grandma who can’t afford an old folks home or her medicine and Uncle Steve who is unemployed. We struggle to pay all the taxes they say we owe.
I have an idea, let them stay at your house, you feed them and clothe them and medicate them on your own dime.
Too many people are trying to leave a comment to get in right now.
And none of them will likely get posted.
Since it won’t let me comment I amend my post.
Dear Bishop,
We are too poor to take in foreign law-breakers. We already have Grandma who can’t afford an old folks home or her medicine and Uncle Steve who is unemployed. Too bad they aren’t in the country illegally, they’d get it all for free. We struggle to pay all the taxes they say we owe.
It is inhumane to expect us who are poor and heavily in debt to take in foreign law-breakers and feed them while letting our people starve, house them while our huddle in alleys. Don’t you think so?
I have an idea, let them stay at your house, you feed them and clothe them and medicate them on your own dime.
Maybe we should send a few million poor people to their country and demand they take good care of them?
I’m sure he’d love to house the little boys at his rectory, but wants the gang bangers and parasites to stay at your house.
Your Grace,
based on what one knows about these things, one might be led to believe that it is The Holy Father who names The Martyrs, not the martyrs soi disant. However, be that as it may, this is a very challenging Christian point.
The Muslim in Charge has encouraged hundreds of thousands of youths in ostensibly Catholic countries to jump on a dangerous freight train ride through the deserts of Mexico. Many die. Many are raped, assaulted, starved, sold as chattel, and worse.
Yes, we have an obligation to do something since they are indeed here. However, would it not behoove Holy Mother Church to get off its ecclesiastical duff to do something for these Catholics in their home countries, rather than subject them to this brutal ordeal.
Does it not behoove Your Grace to point out that The Muslim MF who caused all of this misery should be severely censured by the Catholic Hierarchy rather than enabled by them with a bunch of pious bullshiite?
Yes, yes. Let's be good Christians. Let's clean'em up, feed'em, and get them and their illegal parents back where they belong and maybe get your fellow bishops from Central America and Mexico to get off their holy arses and help out these people where they live.
BTW, why did 53% of American Catholics vote for an abortionist of the most activist stripe? Why are the bishops silent when The Muslim MF attacks Catholic institutions with his dictatorial and extra-constitutional rules?
Pardon me, Your Grace, but you guys ain't thinking straight at all.
Let’s house BAN ROBBERS and RAPISTS.....and TAX CHEATS, Bushop!!! ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL.....idiocy!!
That is so to the point. I encourage you to send it.
As a (always like in the Marines, and for similar reasons) student of the Dominican nuns and an English teacher in my own right, I would edit out the MFs and other slang for a more effective communication, but that’s me,
Ad as the kids say, ‘you do you and I’ll do me’ do, as in taking on the role.
But it is very good. Please send it. They need to hear from us.
I am praying for them. They need it and It keeps me from getting really pissed
We are struggling to pay Catholic school tuitions now.
I cannot pay for foreign illegals when paying bills
For our own families is nip and tuck. We already
See families leaving because of yearly hikes.
My kin are paying for elementary school education.
I know many of students are going for free
Because they are indigent. Sorry, we may be at the
End of private education
Honi soit qui mal y pense, Maitre.
MF in the Obama context: "Murderer of the Faithful."
Apparently, the bishop or the diocese has a Facebook account and it’s getting bombed with negative comments about his proposal. I’m not on Facebook so I wouldn’t be able to get it. If any of you can find it, it may be worth posting for the Facebook literate.
Lynch is horrible. He’s basically the one who condemned Terri Schiavo to death, because he’s in the backpocket of the Scientologists and she went into the coma as the result of a Scientologist “purification rite.” He forbade clergy to visit her.
He should have been removed on the spot because he was absent from his diocese at Easter, and no bishop is supposed to do that. She died over Easter in 2005, but unfortunately, Pope JPII was gravely ill and also died a couple of days later, so I think her death was ignored. And JPII was not very good on enforcing things, so I doubt that it would have mattered even if he had been alive and well.
Bp Lynch also forbade Eucharistic Adoration and a host of other things. He tolerated Old Rite “chapels,” however, because they didn’t interfere with his program and many of their clergy were on the dubious and shady side - obscure histories and obscure ordinations.
Bp Lynch was also sued by a male staffer for sexual harassment and was known as “Bishop Speedo” locally, because he wanted pictures of the guy in speedos. He had even been reassigned from another diocese after some financial obscurities.
Many people love JPII, but he was a terrible administrator and never enforced any of the laws of the Church on a grand scale nor even on a bureaucratic level, because Lynch could have been removed on virtually any grounds.
Bp Lynch needs to go now, for so many reasons that it’s hard to know where to begin.
When BXVI became Pope, Lynch shaped up slightly but he obviously now feels with Pope Francis that he’s home free. And he probably is.
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