When is okay to break the law?
This Catholic says the Catholic bishops are a**holes.
Great letter to the editor.
If these illegal immigrants were Baptists or Holy Rollers, the Catholic church would be less interested in their welfare. Why? Because the Catholic church has a horse in this race. Falling revenues, falling church attendance have plagued the US church, and here come millions of devout Spanish speaking Catholics pouring over the border. Of course the church wants them coddled and cared for. They can hear the jingle of coins hitting that collection plate on Sunday morning.
At St Peters in the Vatican the Swiss guards keep out people based on the clothes they wear ... how about we just keep out people with bandanas ?
Amen. That is an excellent letter. Catholic bishops, above all, should be cognizant of the proper authority of law and the virtue of obedience.
Repeal the tax exempt status of the Catholic Church. Let them share in the tax burden of the average citizen for supporting illegals.
I do have a problem with the government interfering in the Church's religious-based activity, whether it be requiring the Church to let gays adopt children (Massachusetts) or making the Church report illegal aliens. Providing for the needy is a Catholic requirement, and laws that raise the specter of criminal liability for doing just that are an impediment to free exercise of religion.
Okay, when is it right to break the law? I believe Christian charity applies when you encounter a beggar by the roadside or at your front door...
I do not believe it applies to the thief who sneaks over the fence and into the sheep pen. As it turns out, that is one of the parables in the Gospel of John.
Wow. Great letter. Well-written.
What I really resent is belief that America's borders are not acknowledged by the Catholic church or at least by much of the Catholic church in America. How about the rest of Americans who are not Catholic? Our opinions on illegal immigration don't matter one darn bit to the Church!!
I have never heard of people starving in Mexico or Central America. They may be poor and diet may be limited but they are not starving down there.
What pressure are Mexican bishops exerting to make their government more accountable to its people?
Mexican Bishops have not be able to speak out against the government since Emperor Maximillian seized all church property and split the Catholic Church of Mexico away from Rome. Since the Cristero Wars it has been illegal for any Church to speak out against the Mexican government or it's policies. It's in their Constitution.
ILLEGAL ALIENS come here for a better life, YOURS, are you willing to lie down your life and give it to them???
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Silly you! When it is done by a "compassionate liberal or a democrat politician trying to stick it to President Bush, of course!
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Follow the money. 20 million illegal aliens, about 2/3 from supposedly Catholic countries, at say $2.00 a week in the collection plate, comes to about $13 million a week if only half of them show up in church.
Reverend Ike would like a haul like that too.
Just wait till the Mosques and other Arab centers of worship use the Catholic church's ( and other denomintations) rationale for taking in illegals to shelter terrorists that are in this country illegally. People who call themselves Christians should really think out their stance on this issue rather than taking emotional way out.
When is okay to break the law?
Jesus Christ.... never broke the law.