Its hard to talk about faith and morals with a straight face if millions of AMericans kids and spouses have their families uprooted, destroyed, or torn apart. The Church should be talking on this issue. The church cannot talk with integrity on the dignity of the human person and the family, issues such as divorce laws, abortion, same sex marriage , euthanaisa, and ignore this issue and not try its best to make sure that that person and family(the domestic church) is to to be treated with dignity and respect
"if millions of AMericans kids and spouses have their families uprooted, destroyed, or torn apart."
Excuse me, but "American" people wont get uprooted.
The people who will get deported (not uprooted, deported) will be *NON*Americans. All others can stay of go by choice. The Govt isnt forcing any family apart. I suppose the correct Catholic solution would be for the family to return, intact, to the country of origin.
Any such change is just the consequence of people's actions to defy the law.
Now, if Americans have gone into family arrangement with illegal aliens, then they will have to deal with the consequences. The lesson needs to be: If you marry an illegal alien, you may be required to live where it is legal for them to live.
(That being said, it is easy to get such spouses 'legalized'.)
"The church cannot talk with integrity on the dignity of the..."
They certainly cannot talk with integrity when they espouse things that just are simply wrong and false.
This position paper is mostly drivel. I noted several errors in fact, and that is just glancing through a few paragraphs. Beyond that, the assertions about consequences to legalization are completely Pollyanna-ish, at variance with the clear history of the debacle of the 1986 amnesty.
It's painful that its so bad.
It is not the church's fault that due to the actions of individual illegal aliens, some children have been put into jeopardy of their financial future. An analogous situation might be to compare the plight of a parent facing incarceration. His actions carry consequences, one of which is that his child and spouse will have to make do without him.
The Church should be talking on this issue.
I'm sorry, but we disagree in this instance. The political issue of immigration policy is not within the scope of Catholic faith and morals.
The church cannot talk with integrity on the dignity of the human person and the family, issues such as divorce laws, abortion, same sex marriage , euthanaisa, and ignore this issue and not try its best to make sure that that person and family(the domestic church) is to to be treated with dignity and respect
Treating someone with dignity and respect does not necessarily include advocating that the government issue a license to break the law, or change the laws in order to accomodate previous lawbreaking behavior.