Posted on 11/07/2007 7:04:43 PM PST by yorkie
(TULSA, Okla.) November 7 Priests are pledging to go to jail if that's what it takes to protect illegal immigrants from the immigration crackdown.
Last Thursday House Bill 1804 went into effect, requiring legal documentation for any immigrant to live or work in the state.
About half of the Eastern Oklahoma Catholic Diocese is Hispanic, that's about 60,000 Catholic parishioners.
Bishop James Slattery tells FOX23 News it doesn't matter how many are legal or illegal, he doesn't know because the church doesn't ask. He says the Catholic Church will help protect all of them from the new law.
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>>I think theyre motivated more by tithing then anything else.<<
I don’t think the illegals can tithe. First, in order to tithe, they would have to have an exact accounting of their income. Do they even know? And, if they tithed, what would they send back home to their familias?
Seriously, tithing is mandatory in some denominations, but I believe it is voluntary in the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church follows the Bible, tithing is mandatory, just not enforced.
Name one.
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