From the article: “It also recognizes the right of persons to migrate so that they can realize their God-given rights.”
I hope I read that quote wrong, but didn’t the Catholic Church’s Bishop’s Statement on Immigration just take the position that people have the RIGHT TO IMMIGRATE TO AMERICA?
If so, the Bishops are arguably over the theological line and into the territory of sedition/treason.
I suspect the Catholics, being a monarchical structure, have difficulties with America being a republic of sovereign citizens. Because we are sovereign citizens, we need not accept “authority”, not do we tend to accept the interpretation of the word of G*d, having Bibles of our own.
America is, at its core, Protestant. Catholicism is authoritarian in a way which must give the Catholic Bishops acute dyspepsia at times - times like this debate.
Personally, I find any specific religious “authority” claiming that God commands us to cede any portion of the Constitution to Mexicans to be ill advised, and eventually likely to cause a rejection of the Catholic Church.
No man has the “right to migrate to America” as I don’t have the right to migrate elsewhere.
I can apply for permission to move to another land, but to claim a divinely approved right for me to so do is assinine, if not overtly Liberation Theology.
PS Liberation Theology is communism with a churchy renaming plastered over the same old ancient evil.
You forget that the Catholic Church has long been the Church of Immigrants. For the Irish immigrants, the Church was their chief buffer against the bigotry and discrimination of the Anglo-Americans. But the bulk of immigration before 1920 was from Catholic countries, which caused a lot of anxiety among Protestants.