Status Quo?
Posted on 06/24/2005 9:52:01 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Immigration reform church goal, cardinal says
Louie Gilot
El Paso Times
The time for immigration reform has come, U.S. and Mexican Catholic workers assembled in El Paso said as the groundbreaking Binational Migration Conference opened Thursday.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C., said the church owes it to its Hispanic faithful to push for change, as high-profile delegates gathered at the Camino Real Hotel.
"The church in the United States is very, very Hispanic and what a blessing that is. They (Hispanic immigrants) come with the values that are so needed in the United States today. When there is a moral issue that concerns so many of our people, we have to speak," McCarrick said, alternating between English and Spanish. "This is a special moment in the history of the Catholic church and the history of migration."
About 150 diocesan staff members attended the first day of the conference, the first ever along the U.S.-Mexico border. The conference will end Saturday.
Cynthia Colbert, the executive director of Catholic Charities for Central Texas, said she wanted to hear about strategies she can use back home in Austin. "We want to support the campaign (for immigration reform) through educating our own community on the benefits of immigration for all of us. It's a social justice issue for our brothers and sisters," she said.
In a training session Thursday, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops representatives outlined their plan for reform, which included:
(The Illegal Alien Immigration Gospel according to the Catholic Church?)
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In a training session Thursday, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops representatives outlined their plan for reform, which included:
Status Quo?
I'm Catholic, and I disagree with the Cardinal. He's forwarding his personal opinion, and it's no more valid than mine in this instance. However, the Church bureaucracy is supporting his stance. That is a problem.
It's the American version of Liberation Theology. Read what Cardinal Ratzinger wrote about these people.
http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/ratzinger/liberationtheol.htm
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"The church in the United States is very, very Hispanic much in favor of illegal aliens (if they're Catholics) and what a blessing that is for our collection plates. They (Hispanic illegal aliens) come with the values (i.e. disrespect for the law) that are so needed in the United States today. When there is a moral issue that concerns so many of our law-breaking people, we have to speak out in favor of their values," McCarrick said, alternating between English and Spanish. "This is a special moment in the history of the money hungry Catholic church and the history of illegal migration."
The "Church" needs an attitude adjustment.
I'm Catholic, too, and don't agree with this. Maybe any donation checks we sign should read "Not for political purposes"
"In the war on illegal immigration and the effects of same Balkanizing a once united America, it appears that the Catholic church is an enemy."
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It appears Pope John Paul's successor has some housecleaning to do - he must act and act swiftly on this matter. He cannot remain silent on this. It is a precedent that must not be allowed to stand.
(Surely the Church has learned from being silent during the genocides of Nazi Germany that sins of ommission are as great as sins of commission.)
The very radicality of liberation theology means that its seriousness is often underestimated, since it does not fit into any of the accepted categories of heresy; its fundamental concern cannot be detected by the existing range of standard questions.
Pretty strong stuff. In the article linked at post 7(?), Ratzinger links Liberation Theology with Marxism.
If you're going to criticize the Catholic Church for being "silent" at the time, then you have to criticize several other parties, our government for example.
Given your past comments, you already thought that before this issue came up.
The very radicality of liberation theology means that its seriousness is often underestimated, since it does not fit into any of the accepted categories of heresy . .
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I've never seen the Catholic Church take such an openly political and volatile stand on such a distant issue from the core of Church theology. This is purely political - any spiritual good anyone thinks would come of this will be shadowed by the politically-driven aspect of it.
If you've paid any attention to Happy's posts over the last 5-6 months, you'll see that Happy has been an extremely vocal critic of our government.
In the case of this thread, the subject of the article is a group within the Catholic Church that the current Pope has come this close to calling heretics. See post 6.
Let me know what has changed.
Nothing should have changed. But it has. The Catholic hierarchy in the U.S., to a certain extent, are a bunch of pedophile-abetting, illegal-immigrant supporting, fools. What Catholics have to remember, though, is that they have to respect the office of bishop, and not necessarily the person in the office.
I cannot however respect an entity that propagates a form of subversion that essentially advocates an invasion of illegal aliens into this (or any other) country.
This at best is heresy and at worst is treason.
This is an issue that Benedict XVI will allow the US bishops a lot of leeway on.
If he were pressed on it, it's likely that Benedict would agree with McCarrick.
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