Posted on 03/12/2014 5:13:58 PM PDT by jimbo123
A group of Catholic bishops, evangelical leaders and advocates pressured top House Republicans to vote this year on overhauling immigration in a series of private meetings on Wednesday.
With legislation stalled in the House and prospects dimming, proponents argued that action is a moral imperative and offered the unique, united front of Catholics and evangelicals imploring the House to move ahead.
Bishop Eusebio Elizondo of Seattle called it an "historic moment" and said they "reaffirmed that every day of delay, the consequences are separated families."
The participants, who spoke to The Associated Press, said they received neither assurances of a vote this year nor definitive word that it won't happen.
Elizondo was joined by three other bishops — Bishop Robert McElroy, the auxiliary bishop of San Francisco; Bishop Kevin Vann of Orange County, Calif., and Bishop John Charles Wester of Salt Lake City. Rev. Gabriel Salguero, the president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, and Leith Anderson, the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, were part of the lobbying group.
"We want to see a vote this year," said Salguero, who added that the House GOP leaders' principles on immigration in January had provided a glimmer of hope.
The group met with Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., the chairman of the House Republican Conference; Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the Budget Committee chairman who has spoken favorably about acting on immigration; Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Becky Tallent, a top aide to Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on immigration issues.
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“National Latino Evangelical Coalition”, to be more specific.
I know that the Catholics are a single church denomination, and vote pro-immigration, but I don’t think “Evangelical” is like that, if so, then Evangelical headquarters has a problem, because it’s church members sure don’t vote for the pro-immigration party.
Patriotic Catholics and Evangelicals should respond with empty envelopes in the collection basket and a note explaining WHY.
Chaffetz is a traitor.
He won the primary opposing amnesty
I wonder if the Church lobbied the Roman Empire to legalize the illegal immigrant Goths and Vandals.
The Catholics who sit in the pews each week DO NOT SUPPORT their Bishops who seem to be more interested in getting more Hispanics into the US since most Hispanics are Catholic.
Our Bishops for the most part are a bunch of left leaning wusses who consistently fail to speak up on the key issues which are important to lay Catholics.
As the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen said,
“WHO IS GOING TO SAVE OUR CHURCH? NOT OUR BISHOPS, NOT OUR PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS. IT IS UP TO THE PEOPLE. YOU HAVE THE MINDS, THE EYES, THE EARS TO SAVE THE CHURCH. YOUR MISSION IS TO SEE THAT YOUR PRIESTS ACT LIKE PRIESTS, YOUR BISHOPS, LIKE BISHOPS, AND YOUR RELIGIOUS ACT LIKE RELIGIOUS.”
Caracalla legalized the Barbarians in order to persecute Christians.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/law/g/CaracallaEdict.htm
Interesting parallel.
Know the foe.
At its psychological roots, Liberation Theology is really about nothing more than getting laid.
Caracalla also legalized the Barbarians under the guise of getting tax revenue from them, but of course they didn’t have any money so he raised taxes on the non-Barbarians instead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio_Antoniniana
The illegals need to be deported and it’s O.K. by me if they take Bishop Eusebio Elizondo and the rest of these fellow travelers with them.
Next you’re going to tell me the Barbarians were exempt from Caracallacare too.
Caracalla was Roman emperor of Punic and Syrian (Arab) descent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla
I thought it was pretty interesting that Septimius Severus spoke Punic fluently, and Latin with an accent.
Believe me, as a Catholic we get good and tired of butting heads with Bishops, Priests and Religious who are doing None of the Above.
According to the media no one opposes amnesty or something
RCs (generally) are known for being pro-Amnesty, but I don’t know any conservative Christians (evangelicals) who are for it. In fact, most are emphatically against it.
Sadly, the Southern Baptist Convention advocates for amnesty.
A majority of practicing Catholics that I know do not want amnesty. The Church says that a sovereign state has the right to control it’s borders.
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