Posted on 03/28/2006 2:18:36 PM PST by razorbak
The Roman Catholic Church, dozens of grass-roots coalitions and Spanish-language radio disc jockeys have helped fuel protests nationwide against congressional efforts to tackle illegal immigration....
The Catholic Church has played a key role in opposing legislation to restrict immigration and rallying protesters....
"As we've been able to reach more and more people, they're waking up to the ills of the proposals made to date and seeing the need to be vocal about the kinds of reforms that would be more acceptable," said Mark D. Franken, executive director of migration and refugee services for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops....
The bishops conference in May began "Justice for Immigrants," a campaign focused on activating a network of grass-roots movements against punitive immigration-reform legislation....
Mr. Franken said all the nation's 197 Catholic dioceses are in some way backing the campaign, with more than 70 being particularly active. Disseminating pamphlets and networking, community-level groups tied to the campaign are operating "in churches and everywhere they can gain access," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.washingtontimes.com ...
""As we've been able to reach more and more people, they're waking up to the ills of the proposals made to date and seeing the need to be vocal about the kinds of reforms that would be more acceptable,"
It's WAY past time to start making these churches pay taxes. That's shut 'em up quickly.
They just love the leftist idiology. All the while the Churches are rolling on money and demanding the taxpayers use their money to promote socialism around the world.
And I'm sending letters to every Archbishop about that idiotic stance.
My article about Christians and Illegal Immigration. Notice that "Christian" advocates for illegals almost never quote from the Bible.
They supported the Anti-War rallies around the country but locally, they were mostly gray hair, long hair former hippies.
What the Catholic Church is doing is really demeaning to their own mostly blue-collar members, who have gotten the boot from their own employers in favor of hiring illegals.
These are the same people whose children were molested by the Catholic Clergy too. When will some people learn?
The Church (and true conservative Catholics) has been battling the Marxist "Liberation Theology" scourge in Central and other parts of Latin America for a long time. It is contrary to Church teachings.
The US bishops do not speak "for the Church" as a whole.
Hispanics are mostly catholics...follow the money.
Feinstein is a a miserable failure
The R.C. church claims to be aginst abortion but this is just window dressing. Ted Kennedys stance on abortion comes directly from Rome. He is attacking the US on two fronts one is cause genocide of the legal children of this country through abortion. The other front is to flood this country with Illegals from all of South America which are mostly Catholic. Yes The church wants to dominate this country. The concerns people had regarding our frist Catholic president are now being realized.
If I did my html right, this should be the link
"The concerns people had regarding our frist Catholic president are now being realized."
What the hell are you talking about? You don't like catholics, I quess. Stupid post.
I am so damn glad I stopped going to my Catholic church and pumping money into that stupid commie basket that is passed around. I stopped attending church two decades ago. This is nothing new. Priests have been preaching soclaism/communism for decades. Screw 'em.
We're stacking the deck with Catholics to fight off the Islamists!
Silly me, should have seen this before. :-)
"I stopped attending church two decades ago."
I couldn't live with the guilt. The people change in the church, yet cannon law never does. Sad you left.
Thank you.
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