Posted on 03/28/2013 8:30:55 AM PDT by haffast
A U.S. cardinal said he expects Catholic Church leaders to intensify efforts on behalf of a new immigration law and gun control measures as congressional legislation on the issues move forward.
Many undocumented immigrants are “family people” who “came to make a contribution to American society,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired Catholic prelate of the nation’s capital, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” which airs this weekend.
The nation’s Catholic bishops will back up their endorsement of a path to legal status for such immigrants with more action once legislation is introduced, he added.
“I’m hoping that when we get a bill, you’ll see how active they’ll be,” McCarrick said.
While the Catholic Church hierarchy has clashed with President Barack Obama over abortion rights and his health-care law’s mandate for contraception coverage, the nation’s bishops are allied with him on his stance for an immigration overhaul and gun control legislation.
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“We obviously are against these heavy-duty automatic weapons; their place is in war,” McCarrick said. At the legislative battle’s “flash point, I think we will find that the church is speaking out.”
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McCarrick, 82, didn’t participate in the election of the new pope because of a church rule limiting voting to cardinals under 80 years of age. He was part of a related conclave of cardinals summoned to Rome for meetings on church issues.
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As the U.S. Supreme Court considers a civil-rights case for same-sex marriage, McCarrick said he has “no problem” with civil unions for gay couples that confer the same rights as marriage under a different name.
“I certainly would prefer that” to “what I could call a marriage, in quotes,” McCarrick said.
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(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Things are not going well, but we need to remain resolute.
Can you provide a source please?
“Aside from a few things like abortion and gay marriage, the Catholic church is very liberal on everything from gun control, immigration, the death penalty, social welfare spending, etc.”
The Catholic Church does not outright prohibit the death penalty, and Popes have written encyclicals against socialism (which practically destroyed the Church in Europe in the early part of the 20th century). Distinctions should be made between the “Catholic Church” and the “American Catholic Church”.
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) continues to provide a steady stream of canonizations of martyrs for us; over 7,000 priests, 100 nuns, and a lot more lay Catholics were martyred by a socialist government’s policies.
Yes, but you’d expect an Archbishop of Washington DC to last a little longer. John Paul II probably would have let McCarrick stay on for a couple of more years.
“Yes, but you’d expect an Archbishop of Washington DC to last a little longer. John Paul II probably would have let McCarrick stay on for a couple of more years.”
I don’t know the mechanics behind it, though some are quite content to retire. He certainly couldn’t have made the comments in the article if he was on the job.
"On 16 May 2006, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Cardinal McCarrick as Archbishop of Washington, DC, upon the latter's reaching the customary age limit of 75, and appointed Donald Wuerl, Bishop of Pittsburgh, as the 6th Archbishop of Washington, DC."
McCarrick became known as an advocate for social justice, once saying, "[T]he Church cannot be authentic unless it takes care of the poor, the newcomers, the needy".[2]
In 1988, he participated in an interfaith meeting with Fidel Castro to promote religious freedom in Cuba, the first meeting of its kind since the 1958 Communist revolution.
On 29 August 2009, McCarrick presided at the graveside service of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) at Arlington National Cemetery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Edgar_McCarrick
The Creation of the Religious Left
“When people reflect on the Christian church they generally picture a fellowship of believers whose focus is on *spiritual growth*, *spreading the faith*, and *good works*. These were the church’s primary goals until the last few decades. There is a wide gulf, however, between yesterday’s goals and today’s agenda. The American mainline churches the most prominent of which are the United Methodists, the United Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Episcopalians, the American Baptists, many Catholic leaders and orders, and the Lutheran Church in America - have realigned their priorities in a frighteningly *political* direction.”
“A growing percentage of Christian leadership has abandoned its role as *spiritual shepherd* because it no longer considers humanity’s *spiritual welfare* its greatest concern. A great many bishops have rejected *winning souls* in favor of *influencing political issues*. Church bureaucracy now neglects traditional mission in favor of *lobbying for political causes*. In fact, certain sectors of the church now make it their primary business to manufacture, widely distribute, and finance a radical agenda by which they hope *to save the world*. In doing so, they have created the *Religious Left*.”
http://cmpage.org/betrayal/chapt1.html
Stop the Tax Exempt nonsense for everyone!
You mark my words,.....The new will wear off the new pope and he will come out for Hugo Chavez or Che, or some other commie murderer. The signs are already there. He's a Jesuit! He will win over the population with his "populism" and then hit us out of nowhere with "We need world taxes to support the worlds poor!" "If we could just disarm all the negative people that don't want to give their money to the Brazilian poor" or "Love is beautiful even between the same sex".
Don't think it can happen? Look at the Lutherans/United Methodists.
Illegal Alien Amnesty is not a Christian thing to do.
An absolute insult to American Christians....and legal immigrant Christians
OMG I’m going to throw up. My old high school is named after him.
Actually, Cardinal McCarrick’s resignation wasn't accepted for nearly 10 months, which was pretty typical under Pope Benedict, who seemed to accept bishops’ resignations far more speedily than Pope John Paul II.
And his replacement, Wuerl, is hardly any sort of improvement.
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Protesters Question Clergyman’s Loyalty
At Archbishop Jose Gomez Residence
Dozens of protesters have shown up at Archbishop of Los Angelus Jose Gomez residence many carrying American flags and bearing signs questioning his loyalty to the US not Mexico along with many signs demanding equal rights for American citizens in Mexico.
The protest was apparently triggered by the clerics decision to push forward with his predesessors decision the disgraced Cardinal Mahoney with offering amnesty thus citizenship to Mexicans crossing the border illegally while thousands of Americans in Mexico suffer under 2nd class citizenship unable to own property and suffer indignantys let alone participate in Mexican elections while living there in Mexico.
A spokeswoman for the group, Harriet Hildegarden insisted her group consists of Catholics loyal to the church. “We will be protesting at other locations where prominent clergy of the church have sided with the Obama regime”Hildy” claims the church is supporting the democrat party which denied God at their convention and declared what she claims is war on the Catholics but would collude with i t on many issues including “amnesty” .
When asked if she may be denied communion for her activities her reply was “Well it’s been known that when that happens quicker when clerics get personally attacked than when some politican challanges the church on the grounds of faith and morals”
from http://www.theusmat.com/natldesksatire.htm
“Can you provide a source please?”
Certainly. The original source is:
The unsealed ‘MEDIATION DOCUMENTATION FOR FR. G.’ that involved McCarrick, the dioceses of Metuchen and Newark, NJ. (2006) A financial settlement was reached.
I accessed the excerpt at:
http://www.richardsipe.com/Comments/2008-04-21-McCarrick_Syndrome.html
Thank you, I’ll read it over.
The reason Catholics are for illegal immigration is because they assume that the Mexicans will be catholic, and increase the money going into church coffers. Good luck with that idiots! The Mexicans will only send the money back home!
LOL
Back last year when the GOP was hanging itself over the birth control mandate, which is why Obama threw it out as bait anyways because he knew what they would do, the GOP thinking it was a an easy win kept on referencing the Catholic institutions employers and I didnt think it was very smart ,and then only days later Priests in the church are attacking those same GOP congressmen over the Ryan budgets.
GOP got nothing good from that whole episode.
The GOP didn't try very hard.
Catholics are a swing group. You want their votes? You gotta work for ‘em. Rightly or wrongly.
In ‘00 and ‘04, I was contacted personally by the Bush campaign and invited to sessions to hear about Catholic concerns. Why? I was identified as a parish leader, as a “persuader.” I didn't go to any, but I noted that the Bush campaign kept in constant touch with me from the late primaries through the generals both years, NOT ASKING FOR MONEY EVERY DAMNED TIME THEY REACHED OUT, but asking me as a Catholic lay leader, as a homeschooler, as a pro-lifer.
In neither ‘08 or ‘12 did I hear a peep out of the McCain or Romney campaigns about my issues. I received 3 - 6 phone calls per day begging for money, but no one asked my views on anything.
I still voted for McCain and Romney, but both campaigns took my vote - and the votes of a lot of other Catholics - for granted.
Not the way to win elections.
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When were you baptized?
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