Posted on 12/09/2025 12:26:54 PM PST by ebb tide
The Archdiocese of New Orleans has said that Catholics who are fearful for leaving their homes can miss Mass amid immigration raids while U.S. Border Patrol agents fan out across the city in the second week of an immigration enforcement operation.
Archbishop Gregory Aymond granted the dispensation for Catholics who are "rightfully afraid to participate in Mass.”
The dispensation will be valid "until the individual Catholic determines it is safe to attend Mass again or this dispensation is revoked or amended," Aymond said in a letter Monday to New Orleans' Catholic clergy.
Aymond's letter described "real fear and anxiety in the wake of an increase in immigration enforcement actions" felt by New Orleans-area Catholics with immigrant backgrounds.
"Let me first assure them of my prayerful support in the face of these challenging times," Aymond wrote. "I implore all people of faith and goodwill to join me in prayer for our families and our community and ask on behalf of our immigrant families and communities that we work for real justice and a system that protects and preserves the dignity of the human person and families regardless of where they live or from where they come."
Aymond's letter marks at least the second dispensation issued by Catholic church leaders in south Louisiana over fear among worshippers of immigration sweeps. Baton Rouge Bishop Michael Duca issued a letter late last week that dispensed fearful Catholics from attending Mass during immigration enforcement operations. Priests in Baton Rouge read the letter aloud at Masses over the weekend.
“These expulsions are affecting not only our Catholic Hispanic brothers and sisters but also refugees and immigrants of all denominations from other nations who form the rich tapestry of our local communities,” Duca wrote. “These are our neighbors, co-workers, and parishioners.”
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There is no history of the persecuted, underground Catholics of Ireland and Red China getting Mass "dispensations" even though the consequences of assisting at a Mass could result in imprisonment or death.
Ever since the Wuflu scam, frankenbishops have been passing out dispensations as if the Commandments were optional.
Ping
This is an insult to the Irish Catholics who assisted at Mass in the middle of the forest, at “Mass Rocks”, in the face of real persecution. Among others.
Who appointed Gregory Aymond to the bishopric?
Aymond and Duca aren’t only ones passing out dispensations like candy.
There’s Bishop Alberto Rojas of San Bernardino and the infamous Michael Martin of Charlotte who are granting dispensations.
Don’t be surprised if more follow suit. It’s a big demoncratic PR stunt; there have been no reported ICE raids of any churches.
Besides which, I am angry that these bishops and Catholic Charities facilitated the wholesale importation of vulnerable children and did not care one bit after they were released to whoever claimed them. The amount of child rape, trafficking, forced labor and abuse is enough for that millstone to be mighty big around the bishops necks. I will not contribute one penny to the dioscean fund from now on until these "shepherds" fix what they damaged.
“no reported ICE raids of any churches.”
“reports” ? Check out social media... a zoo of fact and fiction.
Nobody, neither one extreme, nor the other extreme, nor me in the middle define the difference between “qwuestioned”, “detained”, “detention”, “deported” and similar words. They are used interchangably by all sides, which they are not.
It would help if all sides were honest about what is happening...starting with Homan and Bovino.
Useless idiots spewing uselrss crap.
These bishops are a bunch of fops. No backbone at all.
I was a Catholic. I did not change but the Catholic Church did. I did not leave The Church, The church left me.
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