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Please don't bash the Church per se, whose doctrines on this subject are at once moral, practical, and persuasive. My gripe is against clerics who drape their prudential opinions with episcopal brocade but ignore some of the key requirements of Catholic Social Doctrine. For instance, this from Para 2241, Catechism of the Catholic Church:
"Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants' duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens."
Very well stated.
Nowadays, it seems nobody expects *himself* “to assist in carrying civic burdens” ... all the burdens are to be dumped on someone else.
Thank you for this useful piece of verbiage. LAWFUL IMMIGRATION FOR ALL, LAWLESS IMMIGRATION FOR NOT ONE!
EXCELLENT commentary! Thanks so much for sharing it - and the ping as well...
thanks for that , IO will change it a bit but it has been very helpful
Excellent write Mrs.D, and I learned some things I didn’t know! Thanks for pinging.
Please remove me from your post list. I AM NOT CATHOLIC.
Good read.
Your comments are awesome!
I will apply them in my own arguements.
Thanks!
I am not Catholic as well. Please remove me from your ping list. Thank you in advance.
>”Political authorities [snip] may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions[...]. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.”
But what happens if they do not respect them?
Here’s a possible solution: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATyjMtQJe7iWZHY2OTh0bV8yN2htZnBzOWQy&hl=en
Not Catholic but thanks for the ping.
To hear the “undocumented” migrants scream, you’d think the USA was requiring them to jump through a dozen flaming hoops to arrive on this side of the border. It’s actually pretty easy to get a green card.
Thanks for the ping!
BTTT
Excellent. Thanks for the ping.
I think the Church is speaking about legal immigrants....not illegals.
What about the families left behind?
February 26, 2007
Mexican wives want U.S. to return husbands
The women of Tecalpulco, Mexico, want the U.S. government to enforce its immigration laws because they want to force their husbands to come back home from working illegally in the United States. (snip)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/feb/26/20070226-010345-3459r/
Beautifully stated. I will certainly refer to your work when I write my bishop.