Posted on 04/29/2010 9:04:13 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
The Archbishop....has waded into the controversy concerning the newly passed legislation in the State of Arizona concerning illegal immigration....It is found on his ever insightful blog entitled "The Gospel in the Digital Age".
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And, here we go again! Arizona is so scared, apparently, and so convinced that the #1 threat to society today is the immigrant that it has passed a mean-spirited bill of doubtful constitutionality that has as its intention the expulsion of the immigrant.
What history teaches us, of course, is that not only are such narrow-minded moves unfair and usually unconstitutional, but they are counterproductive and harmful.
Because the anti-immigrant strain in our American heritage, however strong, is not dominant. Thank God, there's another sentiment in our national soul, and that's one of welcome and embrace to the immigrant.
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To welcome the immigrant, to work hard for their legalization and citizenship, to help them feel at home, to treat them as neighbors and allies in the greatest project of human rights and ethnic and religious harmony in history - the United States of America - flows from the bright, noble side of our American character.
To blame them, stalk them, outlaw them, harass them, and consider them outsiders is unbiblical, inhumane, and un-American.
Yes, every society has the duty to protect its borders and thoughtfully monitor its population. The call is to do this justly, sanely, and civilly.
My brother bishops in Arizona worry this is not the case there. They have been joined by Cardinal Roger Mahony, Jewish, other Christians, and various civic and human rights groups.
I'm on their side.
I want history to repeat itself - but the "Statue of Liberty side," not the Nativist side.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan
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....the anti-immigrant strain in our American heritage, however strong, is not dominant. Thank God, there's another sentiment in our national soul, and that's one of welcome and embrace to the immigrant....
To welcome the immigrant, to work hard for their legalization and citizenship, to help them feel at home, to treat them as neighbors and allies in the greatest project of human rights and ethnic and religious harmony in history - the United States of America - flows from the bright, noble side of our American character.
Will the CCCB then take responsibility of the crimes (including deaths) they have committed just for the sake of being politically correct?
What is the definition of illegal in the Modern Catholic Dictionary?
A definition would absolutizing and we can't have that.
I talked to a priest friend of mine about the state of the church. Very conservative.
He said that the church is having to fight enemies on the outside and enemies on the INSIDE. From time to time he quotes an older priest who told him “What the church needs is a little old fashioned persecution.”
Dolan has come out of the closet in the last few months: He’s a full-blown Mahonyite—Democrat first, second, and third, and Catholic fourth (maybe).
He can’t say enough gushy things about every pro-abortion politician in sight. In fact, he can’t even THINK of any politician who’s actually pro-abortion. He knows that Mario Cuomo’s political positions are “totally in line” with “Catholic” teaching. He DOESN’T KNOW what Andrew Cuomo’s position on abortion is.
But he knows ALL ABOUT the motives and the details of all the racist, nativist, Know-Nothing politicians and people of Arizona.
The good Bishop claims to know what is in the hearts of the 70% who support immigration enforcement.
I wish Archbishop Dolan had said this before this year’s Bishop’s(Stewardship)collection.Bishop Dolan is very cute to only use the word immigrant where an honest person would use the words illegal immigrants.As a Catholic attorney I think this law would be ruled constitutional by the present U.S. Supreme Court.
Ping in case you missed it - a Catholic counter-opinion to +Dolan’s argument here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2503426/posts
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