Posted on 06/07/2021 7:22:22 PM PDT by marshmallow
MUNDELEIN, Ill. (CNS) — After hearing the story of a Salvadoran immigrant and her plight to leave her home country, bishops from the U.S., Central America and Mexico meeting in Mundelein June 2 turned to a camera facing a woman identified as Maria Antonia.
Even though she was who thousands of miles away, in Irving, Texas, they gave her a blessing via Zoom.
“Our wish is that your family find stability and you’ll find peace and continue to experiment God’s consolation,” said Bishop Oswaldo Escobar Aguilar of her home country.
The bishop of the Diocese of Chalatenango, El Salvador, led a dozen other brother bishops in the blessing as they saw through her story the reality of the complexities they discussed June 1 and 2: violence, displacement, looking for safety and a chance to start again.
On the final day of a historic meeting of bishops and international Catholic organizations gathered at Mundelein Seminary outside of Chicago, they discussed the challenges the church faces even while trying to get Catholics to understand church teaching on migrants such as Maria Antonia.
“We need to evangelize our own, we really do,” said Don Kerwin, executive director of the Center for Migration Studies in New York. “Really, the whole church is not with us and we should be honest about that. We don’t need messaging as much as we need Catholics to be in communion with migrants, as many of you have talked about.
“And we need Catholics to be Catholics. We don’t need them to be Republicans or Democrats or whatever. The church really has a beautiful vision for gathering God’s children, a vision of communion, a vision of diversity, and it works.”
It was a sentiment shared by other participants, including Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the......
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The church may not have borders but nations do.
It isn’t too much to demand that people ask to enter and likewise that they accept the answer that they get.
Perhaps they can lead by example; like Christ did
Tear down the Vatican walls
Offer up all your property to anyone who feels like looting or vandalizing it
Let people urinate on your buildings, and deficate in your yard
I mean if it’s good enough for us; shouldn’t it be good enough for them?
That one has already been arrested and deported for stabbing another chica.
NO!
They may NOT all come here.
Fine arrest them then.
Immigration laws are laws that protect the country. Every country has the right to determine their immigration policies.
The church can protest but should face the consequences of doing illegal things that are rightly in the governments biblical purvue.
I don’t mind a church without borders but the congregations can #%@# stay in the countries they were born to.
Everyday I find my beliefs are farther and farther away from my church’s beliefs!!!
Does this mean they are going to reign in the German bishops?
People in South Averican countries truly believe their coming here is under Gods direction.
The Catholic Church gets truckloads of money for supporting them getting here and thereafter.
Church without borders? Or church without Bibles and Doctrine?
Make the Catholic Church pay real estate taxes on their churches and other church properties.
If they want to be for open borders, they need to have skin in the game.
Do you have a source for that “truckloads” statement?
The Church has never had borders; it’s universal.
The apostate francisbishops are calling for a country without borders and that’s outside their moral authority.
Recently the Catholic dioceses and other institutions backed by the RCC took more than $3 billion in taxpayer-funded government aid as part of the Paycheck Protection Program,(PPP) according to an investigation by the 'Associated Press'.... That appears to make the Catholic Church the single largest beneficiary of the emergency aid program.
Catholic Charities have long been subsidized by government taxpayer subsides t assist bringing in illegals , relocating and transporting illegals into the USA.
Faulty syntax / distorted word-meaning in first sentence.
FAIL!
Or can anyone explain to me how someone can have a "plight to leave?"
Regards,
Or that the Church take responsibility for and insist on reform of the wretched Catholic nations that the migrants free from?
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