Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI struck that chord when he addressed the bishops of the United States in 2012: "With great generosity continue to welcome waves of new immigrants, to provide them with pastoral care and charitable assistance, and to support ways of regularizing their situation, especially with regard to the unification of families. A particular sign of this is the long-standing commitment of the American Bishops to immigration reform."
Quick - all you Catholics who are conservatives need to shovel them a bunch more money!
(rewritten slightly for clarity)
“The plight of the some 11 million Mexican citizens who came uninvited and unwanted to the U.S. has prompted the U.S. Catholic Bishops to mount a campaign to encourage people from other countries to move to the U.S. as well, though uninvited and unwanted, this Sunday.
“Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI struck that chord when he addressed the bishops of the United States in 2012: “With the great generosity provided by others, we continue to welcome waves of economic parasites from other countries, to provide them with pastoral care and charitable assistance, and to support their sapping of the wealth of this prosperous country.”
Implied is that the wealth of Americans is so great they should be forced to surrender it to the five billion starving people of the world who live under governments indifferent to their well being. It is better that Americans lose their wealth and prosperity than that these people change their home nations so that they too could lead prosperous lives of their own making.
But what is not suggested is that “if man ‘A’ wishes to take from man ‘B’ to improve the life of man ‘C’, then man ‘A’ is a S.O.B.”
Everyone in the U. S. other than native Americans are immigrants.
What ancestry is yours?
Remember the signs?
CATHOLICS NEED NOT APPLY
IRISH NEED NOT APPLY
ITALIANS NEED NOT APPLY
I’m happy being a practical practicing Traditional Catholic!
The business of Christ’s Church is to save souls and prepare youngsters to lead a life pleasing to God and pleasing to them. They won’t have to grimace as they look into the mirror each morning.
Illegal immigrants belong in the country they slipped out of. They are trespassers and, as such, deserve to be kicked out of this nation. We can’t even defend America, but yet get concerned about a civil war in another country!
American Novus Ordo Churches need to tend to their main purpose: save souls of the nation in which your church is located. No wonder the new religion, invented subsequent to Vatican II, is faltering.
America has a community organizer for a president and the New Catholic Church has a pope who does about the same thing.
I’m torn. The Catholic part of me wants to welcome the stranger. But a few years ago I was working a temp job. My last day I was working in an area with some Mexicans who were doing drywall. Only one of the 6, the leader, spoke English. The day after I was laid off, I admit I thought: “Most of them probably aren’t in the country legally, but they have a job today and I don’t.” It was kind of grating. Another time I was laid off from a temp job by a Mexican who had trouble with English.
I remember one day on the Laura Ingraham show, a caller from Alabama said a number of Americans were laid off from jobs as their sup said to them: “The Mexicans are here.” The sup tried to walk this back but the cat was out of the bag. The Americans wanted a decent wage and some benefits, the Mexicans didn’t. It’s just not true that immigrants take only jobs that aren’t wanted, as the intelligentsia say.