Posted on 04/02/2006 2:53:55 PM PDT by Crackingham
One day, Roger Mahony, then about 12, was working in his father's poultry processing plant in the San Fernando Valley when law enforcement agents searching for illegal immigrants raided the facility.
"I will never forget them bursting through the doors," Mahony recalled. "I was terrified by it. And I thought, 'These poor people; they're here making a living supporting their families.' . . . It had a very deep impact on me throughout the years." One of his father's workers was taken away.
Now Cardinal Roger Mahony, he leads the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It is the largest Roman Catholic diocese in the country, and Mahony has recently placed himself and the church in the middle of the national debate on immigration.
On March 1, during Ash Wednesday Mass, the Hollywood-born clergyman attacked a House bill that would turn most people and institutions that aid illegal immigrants into felons. Calling it "blameful, vicious" legislation, Mahony vowed a campaign of civil disobedience in the archdiocese's 288 parishes if it becomes law.
Protest organizers and participants credited Mahony's fire from the pulpit -- and the educational campaign he initiated in January throughout his archdiocese -- with playing a critical role in organizing opposition.
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"People unfortunately always want to place the pro-life agenda in two boxes: abortion and euthanasia," he said, speaking of two issues opposed by most Republicans. "But our pro-life agenda encompasses a broad spectrum of issues, and [immigration] is one of them." Another aspect of that agenda is the church's opposition to capital punishment. In March 2005, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, for the first time in 25 years, launched a campaign against the death penalty -- another issue where it and many Republicans diverge.
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Isn't that what the Senate got rid of?
Sounds like the Cardinal's father wanted the cheaper, more pliable form of workers.
Please catch a clue, Your Eminence.
I don't believe a word Mahony Baloney says. Federal agents 50+ years ago tracking down and busting illegal aliens from Mexico...was the bracero program still in place or is he mixed up? What's the difference, at least the Feds were enforcing the law. Hey Mahony, why don't you raise he%% with the Mexican government and tell them to do something about making lives more liveable for their own people? Wouldn't that be the more Christian thing to do? Instead of having people travel dangerously to get here and then work illegally in a country that doesn't speak their language? What a blowhard. Agreed, it sounds more like he's trying to take the heat off his own profession of homosexuals and child molesters.
nice try. the Catholic Church also has a position on capitol punishment that most people who think themselves conservative like to criticize.
And they've had those positions since way before a few weaklings snuck into the priesthood.
Agreed. Don't forget the billions in narcodollars the Mexican economy also exists on. More misery and crime in the U.S. while the Mexican dope dealers profit and live large, while sharing with the government kingpins, too.
Again the MSM tries to confuse LEGAL immigrants with ILLEGAL immigrants
The article headline should read Catholic Church seeks amnesty for illegal acts by illegal aliens.
(isnt the church supposed to respect he laws of man with "unto ceasar" and all that?)
I've been calling him, "Bruce Baloney" for years.
Can anyone imagine, "Pope Baloney" the 1st!?
If the Cardinal wants to support immigration rights let him take the churches wealth and pay back the billions of dollars they have stolen from the taxpayers of this country. Otherwise he can shut the hell up and obey the law like we have to.
Claiming that Mahony is a synonym for the Church is a sign of ignorance.
Mahony makes me puke. That said, many Hispanics are very much opposed to abortion - but Mahony's precious Dem pols virtually force it upon them. Somehow, nobody has ever called Mahony to account for this. He honors (non Hispanic) pro-abortion pols at ever chance he gets. I wonder if the Hispanics have ever asked themselves why Mahony is so eager to get rid of their kids?
Think the taxpayers will reimburse those Catholics who sent their kids to Parochial schools but had to pay for public schools too?
The Cardinal is mandating that illegal immigrants, who are breaking the law everyday just by being in the United States, refuse to obey our laws. He's not a Catholic, is he?
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Before you ask, I been one since I was weeks old, and I'm one they tried it on. They need to finish their own business, before they have any crediability in any argument.
my sympathies, but the connection you allege between the Church's position on immigration and the sex abuse scandal is preposterous.
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