I'm a catholic so I'll toss my two cents in. I believe the problem with immigration would end if those who hire them were arrested/prosecuted/fined because they are the source of the problem. If there were no employers willing to skirt the law and hire illegals then there would not be the problem of so many crossing the borders for employment.
While I do believe faith has no borders? Illegal immigration is not about faith, except for the fact that the Catholic church's largest area of growth is by it's hispanic members. I realize there are times when God's law is not in agreement with Man's law, however I do not believe this to be one of those times.
Lisa I'm aghast at your wisdom and veracity.
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I'm not catholic, but I'll toss my two cents in. I believe the problem with immigration would end if the laws allowed moral, hard -working people the freedom to immigrate legally.
As an ex-Catholic Monk, I can tell you the Catholic Church is a one world organization. Of course they think it would be very nice if it was all catholic, and Mexicans are overwhelmingly catholic; so you connect the dots. ;^)
Seven bishops in Minnesota blasted ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for arresting 200 illegals in Minnesota near the Christmas holidays. Bishop Harrington described the arrests as "evilness." The bishops make statements that support the US laws then add BUT... The Catholic bishops absolutely have a vision of a one Catholic America (Latin plus North Americas). Such hypocrisy and twisting of the language shakes my faith in Catholic clergy leadership.
I discovered the "Justice for Immigrants" about six months ago and, as a Catholic, was outraged.
There were so many inaccuracies contained on that site that one barely knows where to start.
What angers me the most is that they only seem to look at one side of the immigration issue--the "plight of the poor immigrant" instead of seeing the larger picture of how poor and working class Catholics (and Americans in general) are adversely affected.
The American bishops seem all too content to throw American Catholics under the bus in order to import a new membership to refill their coffers. And we are being told that it is our duty to "welcome the stranger" as they are displacing us from our jobs and hiking up our taxes and lowering our property values.
If the Catholic Church is so anxious to have these people here, why don't they put their money where their mouth is? Let the church pay to educate them in their schools, pay for the healthcare, housing, food, and other needs which arise. Then I'd have a little more respect for their position. It is easy for them to be so self-righteous because they stand to gain membership and increased donations, while the American people will subsidize it.
I am dumbfounded by their sophmoric arguments that bring back memories of 1960's Liberation Theoloy which gave license for Catholics to engage in premarital sex and abortion. It's ironic that the Catholic church paves the road to inequities with their sometimes psudeo-theology.
I'm now withholding all money to my Catholic parish and channeling such funds to other charities until the US bishops stop the double speak. I suggest that other Catholics do the same.
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