Posted on 11/10/2013 6:55:49 AM PST by moonshinner_09
Washington D.C., Nov 9, 2013 / 04:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As L.A. Archbishop José Gomez laments the lack of urgency to reform the immigration system, the U.S. bishops are urging Catholics to call and write Congress to support “just and compassionate immigration reform.” “Immigration reform can’t wait. We can’t let another year slip away, doing nothing,” Archbishop Gomez said in his Nov. 8 column for Los Angeles' archdiocesan newspaper, The Tidings. “Millions of our brothers and sisters are suffering – and they have been for years now.” The U.S. bishops are asking that Catholics call their congressmen in support of a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and in opposition to the SAFE Act. The SAFE Act would make illegal residence in the U.S. a federal crime and strengthen state and local law enforcement authority to arrest and charge immigrants for overstaying their visas or entering the U.S. without documentation, the Washington Post says. Catholics are asked to call Congress at 1-855-589-5698 on Nov. 13, the feast of St. Frances Cabrini, patron saint of immigrants. The U.S. bishops’ conference has a special website on immigration, www.justiceforimmigrants.org, that also encourages Catholics to send a postcard to Congress. The postcard advocates a path to citizenship for the undocumented, while preserving family unity as a “cornerstone” of the immigration system. The postcard asks for the restoration of due process protections in immigration enforcement and legal avenues for low-skilled immigrant workers to enter and work in the U.S
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They are dead wrong on this issue. All Americans, catholic or otherwise, should ignore this socialist call.
sure, I will call Congress and I will tell them enforce the law
The Bishops conference has no authority over individual bishops. Some bishops will go along with it and others won’t. In the past it has been contradictory to what the Vatican (who does have authority) has passed down. I personally would rather they get rid of all the national bishop’s conferences.
Oh, I’m calling them, alright. But I’m not saying what my bishop wants me to say. They are so wrong on this. There’s a great difference between being truly compassionate to the individual and being foolish so that the nation is wrecked. We cannot entertain, support, feed, and heal everyone in the world who wants to enjoy America’s largesse (which would be billions of people) and we are functionally less able to help the genuinely needy around the world if we are weakened by an economic and political/social/religious invasion.
The church is wrong. Caring about the poor doesn’t mean inviting them in to this country and bankrupting the people who worked hard for their money.
A more compassionate thing to do would be to keep the poor in their countries, and give them advice on how to set up a good form of government, free of corruption, how to set up a good infrastructure, and how to do law enforcement.
Ripping money out of our bank accounts and giving it to the indolent will make them more indolent and more demanding, and us poor.
Real Christians do not support Illegal Alien Amnesty....this is absolute anti-Christian towards those hard working Americans and legal immigrants who follow the laws.
“Millions of Mexicans are suffering – and they have been for years now. They hate Mexico and they want to live in the United States, and they want Americans to give them money.”
The postcard also asks Congress to address the “root causes” of migration, such as persecution and economic disparity, by invading Mexico and replacing their government with a military dictatorship.
This socialist lecturing from the Catholic Church really galls me. We have a ton of laws regarding immigration in this country. Let’s first reform by enforcing the laws on the books rather than just passing more laws.
I will write my Bishop and ask him to mind the Church and leave the immigration problem to people who are not trying to fill the Pews, but I wont write my Senators Mikulski or Cardin or my Comgressman steny Hoyer, because there is no sense in wasting a stamp writing to any of these a-holes.
Working for the Evil One, Jose ?
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
I’ll tell them:
Build the physical fence.
Don’t CHEAT the LEGAL IMMIGRANTS by condemning them to SLAVE WAGES.
Make the immigration process efficient, by privatizing it.
That will never happen with the government running it.
I tell them, the government is NOT some glorified charity.
They’re doing this to buy votes, to impose policies that are an anathema to Catholicism.
Sounds like he’s a Democrat first and Catholic last since he doesn’t mind the ballot stuffing that will lead to more attacks on religion.
However, a sizable percentage of those who have squatted in the U.S. are rapists, murders, child molesters, thieves and welfare cheats. Just being poor does not mean you are given a “get out of jail free” card.
That will be ignored in my parish on Staten Island, unless of course we call our fake Republican Congressman and threaten his election chances if he votes for amnesty.
A black smoke from within the Vatican scheme designed to sow discord and to divide and conquer, leading both sheep and lambs to slaughter before and eternal fire after the final curtain call.
I believe that the bishops would be well advised to address a far more important issue. That is the persecutions of Christians by this administration as well as in the military.
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