The good and evil in men's souls is judged by the Lord. The Church judges that these people continue to be vessels of souls. Perhaps your judgment that they left their souls at the Rio Grande is better but I would not bet my own soul on it. People judge attitudes and actions and the Church seeks penance and conversion. The Church does not disdain souls because the bodies that house them have committed crimes. It is up to secular law enforcement to enforce laws. It is for the Church to save souls.Would your church, if you have one, refuse to allow these people in to worship? If so, than your church is all about social relations and only incidentally about saving souls.
Well, then, let's stop all earthly judgment and we can all do what we want until the Day of Reckoning when the Lord will judge us all.
"The Church does not disdain souls because the bodies that house them have committed crimes."
I never inferred that. But it's also up to the Church to advise lawbreakers that while their souls are never disdained their bodies better shape up and obey the laws of the land because their souls will be all the better for it.
"Would your church, if you have one, refuse to allow these people in to worship? If so, then your church is all about social relations and only incidentally about saving souls."
Yes, I do have a church, Missouri Synod Lutheran. If my pastor packed the congregation every Sunday with illegals, displacers of American workers and poachers who along with their greedy employers are in violation of federal, state and local laws, I'd wish them all well, and attend somewhere else.
It's virtually useless to debate with you as you are a spinmeister and I don't have the time today to unspin as I would wish. Also, it's just too easy.
Leni
"..........the bodies that house them have committed crimes."
Nonsense. The body is a vehicle controlled by the soul, inner being or whatever else you want to call it. By your logic, when that Muslim plowed through crowds of students a while back to "kill as many infidels as possible", it was the cars fault.