No problem.
Caesar=Caesar....God=God....!
The Church is under no obligation to check the citizenship of people who attend Mass. But it would be wrong to hire any of them. And it would be wrong to help them disobey or evade the law.
I understand their sympathy. But this is just wrong.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
This makes me so mad. Aiding and abetting illegal immigrants who are taking over our country. These Catholics are essentially doing the same thing Fruity-Rudy did in setting up a sanctuary city in New York. They should be arrested and jailed for a very long time. And if it turns out they’re taking orders from Rome, I don’t even want to say what I’d suggest.
Lots of priests get it wrong. This is not a scandal, not to me. It's hard to get it right.
But, with all respect, they got it wrong. It doesn't weaken my faith in the Catholic Church. I never had too much faith in the clergy. They got it wrong? what a surprise,
Not.
Slattery is an orthodox, faithful Catholic bishop. I was suspicious of the excerpts and headline, so I read the whole article. It’s mostly about the Church refusing to use the sacraments or soup kitchens as ways to identify and arrest illegals. He does say that he hopes Church employees won’t be harrassed. He directly says that he understands the need to have secure borders and rule of law regarding immigration but that a single federal law would be better than this specific state law.
In short, the headline and the snippets posted here are misleading. I’d like to know what all Slattery said—I don’t particularly trust the sound-bytes in the article, but even the article puts a different spin on the misleading excerpts here.
Well... that's as about as good a Christian sentiment as you can find.
This is a gigantic example of a non-story.
If police, IMS, FBI, or whatever branch of the government were going to arrest Catholic priests for taking this position (which they are not) then I'm ready to line up and get arrested.
This story pisses me off, and so does the posting of this story.
I’ll add that to my list of reasons for attending protestant churches...
Please read the most eloquently written letter on this subject by our FRiend ‘pgyanke’, here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839231/posts?page=31#31
Will the rest of the conservative coalition ever understand that the social conservatives are not united with them on this issue, and that the APPROACH they are using is tearing the religious conservative coalition apart, and without them we can’t win?
I hold little hope that the purists and 100%ers will ever figure it out, or even care if they do. Better dead than red, after all.
The Cath’s have been shoving the spanish stuff since I left the diocese in ‘78.
the reason why I left the Cath church.
Throw their sorry asses in jail. Hey, they might might some new boyfriends there!