[garbageseeker]

Why are Catholics discussing this issue in a open manner? Why are they saying that their leaders by promoting illegal immigration they are promoting a illegal act?

[VOA]

Why are Catholics discussing this issue in a open manner?

I am NOT Catholic.
But, the best I can understand, the bishops supporting illegal immigration
AND the members of their flock that are diametrically oppossed to
the bishop's position...
are both allowed to take these divergent positions and remain good Catholics.
I guess it's the sort of issue in which Catholic theology (or church law) allows
Catholics to hold divergent viewpoints on an issue, but still be in fellowship.