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Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/11/2010 2:04:57 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
As Catholic bishops push for comprehensive immigration reform, they're finding a disconnect between the pulpit and the pews: Clergy tends to support the legislation, while many parishioners oppose it.
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, at an interfaith event Monday, addressed the need to educate skeptical Catholics and work with people of other faiths to rally support for new legislation, calling the current laws "unenforceable."
"Education and formation on our part as faith leaders is certainly an important dimension," DiNardo said. "Those who are in our midst are human beings and the more we can integrate them into our society, the better."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...
How can one say that the current laws are ‘unenforceable’ until they have at least tried to.
Uh, let’s be real, most of the “immigrants” are Catholic as they arrive from Mexico and Central America.
Asses in pews = more $$$ for the Church, irrespective of national origin.
Stop pretending.
Yep, no better than the scumbags who hire them.
“Cardinal of the Crimalien”
“Stop pretending.”
Seems like they do a lot of that these days. Must suck to be Catholic.
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Both you and the Cardinal are wrong if you think that. Many of the illegal aliens are fundamentalist Protestants or non-practitioners. Don't believe it? Go down to your local day labor site and start talking with some of them in Spanish.
Wrong.
It means more effort and more money spent in catechesis (materials in multiple languages), as well as in training more clergy to serve the immigrant populations (in many areas, priests aren't ready for multilingual parishes - and Hispanic immigrants historically do not produce as many vocations to the priesthood as other ethnic groups). And in many cases, it would often mean more of a load on the charitable works of the parish (not that the parishes shouldn't do it - just saying that it means more people sharing the same resources).
And since when does someone warming a spot in the pews guarantee that one will contribute their share to the upkeep of the Church?
Don’t want to...and as us Protestants think, the whole Catholic clergy thing really means nothing to us...the Pope is the same as my local minister, nothing less, nothing more.
bc: It was the Interfaith Clergy Convocation on Immigration Reform, at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Houston. Baptist, Catholic, Church of God, Episcopal, Jewish, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian leaders also attended.
Posted by: Kate at January 11, 2010 03:01 PM
So they’re all in on it?
Gotcha, they want the 3rd World.
I heard a rumor FR was “anti-Catholic”. I never was, but this will change my mind. I’ve had enough of the Catholic Church and their illegal immigration policy. Illegals can be Catholic and stay in their own country. It’s all about bringing more money to the Catholic Church. It’s all about greed.
Mo’ money, Mo’ money, Mo’ money.
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Please start putting together plans for my cash welfare, affordable housing for my family, my children's education, more housing for my extended family.
I'm sure I'll be able to think of many more things that I have an entitlement to at the Vatican's expense, I'll let you know.
Also, there are many faithful Catholics, and even some Catholic clergy who disagree with the opinion of the American bishops that illegal immigrants should be easily naturalized.
Yep. That’s why I haven’t considered myself a devout Catholic in decades.
Churches of a particular sect in the entire state should lose their Tax-Exempt Status if any one or more of their member churches are acting as a “Sanctuary city” for Illegal Aliens.
They can speak all they want about the Illegal Aliens being human beings and we already agree with them on this issue. And, when they immigrate properly, completing all of the requirements for LEGAL IMMIGRATION just as our fore-fathers did, then we will call them Immigrants. Till then, they are Illegal Aliens that need to be outed and ousted.
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