Posted on 09/29/2020 6:01:25 PM PDT by marshmallow
ST. LOUIS — The Archdiocese of St. Louis cracked down on its Immigration Task Force following a webinar in which panelists appeared critical of the Trump administration’s handling of refugees.
Marie Kenyon, an accomplished attorney who oversees human rights issues for the archdiocese as director of the Peace and Justice Commission, also was put on leave over the matter. She couldn’t be reached for comment Friday.
Church officials said they knew nothing of the webinar before the archdiocese recently hosted the program on Facebook, the first in a series titled, “Immigration and the 2020 Election: Education and Action for People of Faith.” They said the content pushed the limits of a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and that the message didn’t fully represent Roman Catholic teaching.
“The church doesn’t necessarily disagree with some of what they were sharing, but their opinions are their own and are not fully accurate representations of teachings of the archdiocese on immigration,” said Peter Frangie, spokesman for the archdiocese, which oversees the Catholic experience in St. Louis and 10 counties in eastern Missouri.
“I am not going to do a line item on it,” Frangie said of the specific passages, adding: “The proper policy and procedures regarding the hosting of these webinars were not followed.”
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“Peace and Justice Commission”
It is always the opposite of the way the Leftists frame it. They don’t want peace, they don’t want justice, they want invasion.
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