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Florida Bishops on Immigration, Jan/2011
Florida Catholic Conference of Bishops

Posted on 01/02/2011 2:41:49 PM PST by shuck and yall

Florida Catholic Bishops Statement on Immigration


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To: Dapper 26
"It does not tell me to satisfy my obligations by reaching into my neighbor’s pockets."

How do you extrapolate what the bishop said to having your pocket picked or that the bishops statement was specific to Mexico. What part of the following do you object to?

"While the Catholic Church does not advocate for undocumented immigration into the United States, it respects the dignity of the human person and the right to work to meet the basic needs of their families."

21 posted on 01/02/2011 5:04:57 PM PST by Natural Law (Stay thirsty my friends)
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To: org.whodat
"What don’t the good bishops keep asses out my government and I will keep my ass out their fake church."

Are you saying that Catholics should have no voice in policy formation because we may disagree with you? Rest assured we will not remain silent.

22 posted on 01/02/2011 5:08:27 PM PST by Natural Law (Stay thirsty my friends)
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To: Natural Law

Fine if they want to change their tax status, i’m all for taxing the hell out of them, so to speak.


23 posted on 01/02/2011 5:11:22 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: org.whodat
"Fine if they want to change their tax status, i’m all for taxing the hell out of them, so to speak."

I already have the hell taxed out of me, thank you.

24 posted on 01/02/2011 5:27:33 PM PST by Natural Law (Stay thirsty my friends)
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To: Natural Law

“A nation’s political life, like Christianity itself, is meant for everyone, and everyone has a duty to contribute to it.”

If the “everyone” includes the illegal immigrant, the statement is profoundly flawed.

The illegal immigrant can’t even be here legally, much less vote.

Any religious ‘leader’ saying otherwise is probably infected with that form of collectivism (communism) known as Liberation Theology.

No wonder the Catholic Church is in such serious problems.

The LibTheo chappies forgot that “DON’T STEAL” is a commandment, and they deny their communism is theft.


25 posted on 01/02/2011 5:32:33 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: GladesGuru
"No wonder the Catholic Church is in such serious problems."

Don't listen to the liberal press or the traditional anti-Catholics, the Catholic Church is doing just fine.

Maybe your problem is with the constitution and not the Catholic Church. The 14th states:

"...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Note that this amendment differentiates between citizens and persons. Surely you are not going to declare illegal immigrants untermensch are you?

26 posted on 01/02/2011 5:45:19 PM PST by Natural Law (Stay thirsty my friends)
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To: shuck and yall
The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin.

But that's the whole point. We are WAY past the point where we are able to welcome such individuals. Whatever one thinks we owe the rest of the world, our obligations to our own citizens are paramount. And we can't even meet them.

27 posted on 01/02/2011 5:45:23 PM PST by freespirited (Truth is the new hate speech. -- Pamela Geller)
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To: org.whodat
The Church will be happy to transfer the burden that it currently bears as the largest distributor of charity in the world in the form of higher taxes to cretins like you.

Make sure you have a laminated card around your neck instructing the paramedics that under no circumstances are you to be treated at a Catholic hospital.

28 posted on 01/02/2011 6:03:31 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Natural Law

Bravo. But you should direct this to Mexico and it’s people. Somewhere they got it into their heads that my country is actually their living room and I’m the stranger in it. Where is it written that I, a Christian, have to subsidize criminality and welcome trespasser’s into my home ?


29 posted on 01/02/2011 6:20:45 PM PST by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: Natural Law

Well, since you mentioned a reference to the Third Reich, you must also be aware of the importance of culture, and the destructive impact of multiculturalism on all known societies?

When Americans can go illegally to other countries and work there and get welfare there, I will consider the flawed argument you are attempting to raise.

Man IS a territorial organism. No faith, neither Catholic nor Communism, can change that.

Also, America is the leading nation in the world, far further along the path to the “Shining City on a Hill” that man has always dreamed of. To allow any nation of people to destroy or even seriously degrade that achievement is simply not acceptable.

Come to the choice, as Islam seems about to force upon us, even the killing of one or two billion people is not too high a price to keep America American.

As Paul Johnson said, “If the American experiment in self government fails, that which comes after will be unspeakably worse.”

Unspeakable squats in hte White House as I type.

Oh, and all too many of the Catholic system support him.

As for what I would do with the illegal immigrants - what was good enough for America when Dwight Eisenhower was President is OK with me. Start another Operation Wetback, deport them, them build a good fence. The Israeli’s have lots of expertise, so have them design it.

But build the fence!

Your suspicion is correct - I am a one of those cold blooded, reptilian Republicans - I don’t think foreign criminals have rights here.


30 posted on 01/02/2011 6:49:43 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: jmacusa
"Where is it written that I, a Christian, have to subsidize criminality and welcome trespasser’s into my home?"

James 2:14-17

"14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." The vast majority of illegal immigrants are not lawless people. They come for the same reasons our ancestors did, for the opportunity for a better life for themselves and their families. They work incredibly hard for relatively little pay. Were Americans not willing to pay them they would not come. The Church only advocates for a respect for them as humans and children of God.

31 posted on 01/02/2011 6:59:55 PM PST by Natural Law (Stay thirsty my friends)
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To: Natural Law

Mexicans are Catholics. They should fix their own country and respect the rights of the citizens of mine. If you want to come here, do it legally ,why can’t they understand this? Christ didn’t espouse lawlessness nor is it Christian to steal as Mexicans are doing. Using Biblical passages to sanitize criminality is a poor excuse indeed.


32 posted on 01/02/2011 7:08:03 PM PST by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: GladesGuru
" you must also be aware of the importance of culture"

For the most part Mexicans are patriotic, conservative, religious, hardworking, family oriented, self reliant people. We conservatives have much more in common with the culture, character and values of the Mexican immigrant than we do with our home grown welfare class.

33 posted on 01/02/2011 7:09:36 PM PST by Natural Law (In Hoc Signo Vibces)
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To: Natural Law

“For the most part Mexicans are patriotic, conservative, religious, hardworking, family oriented, self reliant people.”

I must note that Mexico (AKA Messico) seems not to resemble America, despite your claim of commonality.

Note the Messican civility, with murders being so infrequent. And, did I mention they don’t burn anywhere as many people alive in barrels as we do?

Mexico is culture based on stone age cannibal society with a alter Spanish Catholic graft that seems to be undergoing rejection. And, that Catholicism was impacted, negatively, by the 700 years of being Islamic dhimmis (slaves).

All too much of Islam can be found in Mexican culture. Note the degrqded position of women, the acceptance of mistresses, and let’s not forget that jewel of the Islamic world, Baaksheesh.

Yes, it is called La Mordita in Spanish, but it is still the Islamic bribe system.

Mexico never knew any legal system like American law. The best they had never assured they security in person or property. “El Padron” is still able to do as he sees fit.

I have saved the best comparison for the last. American cities don’t have airborne coliform bacteria counts as part of the weather report. Mexico City does.

You are correct about the American ghetto welfare class not being acculturated Americans. However, they did that to themselves. Detroit is a good example.


34 posted on 01/02/2011 7:52:14 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Most chancellories are staff by liberals, even when the bishop is a social conservative. Which is why they follow the Democratic line.


35 posted on 01/02/2011 8:26:53 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: GladesGuru
Mexicans comes in many varieties. Tejanos are not much affected by the dominant culture in Mexico. Later arrivals are. Mostly they are assimilated to the Anglo-culture and as a body they form a kind of a buffer between us and the Mexicans. No similar class exists in California. Something similar exists in New Mexico, those being the descendants of the Spaniards who came there before 1600. Witness the lady just elected governor. She reflects their values if not their blood.
36 posted on 01/02/2011 8:36:45 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: Natural Law
...we Catholics are a little tired of hearing outsiders tell us to keep quiet about our religious and moral views...

Are you suggesting that our country's immigration policy is illegal? That anyone should be permitted to waltz in and be treated as a citizen? The "we Catholics" you mention had better realize that not all Catholics agree with them and with bishops who advocate breaking our laws. And I'm not referring to "outsiders" here.

That Bishop Lynch was on the list of bishops came as no surprise to me. This man did nothing to save the life of Terri Schiavo who was starved to death in Florida. His opinion matters not one iota to me.

37 posted on 01/02/2011 9:03:05 PM PST by IIntense
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To: RobbyS

I’d guess the population of Tejanos in American jails is very low, even on a population adjusted basis. Some of those families were on their land before the Pilgrims went ashore, if I remember my history correctly.

However, Tejanos are not illegal immigrants, by definition.

Time for another Operation Wetback.


38 posted on 01/02/2011 9:19:48 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Well we have gotten an up close and in our face what is acceptable from this trespassing religion... Nanny the RED Pewlouise, Stupak, and that old dead lion of the Senate Ted Kennedy... And let us never forget it was that old lion of the Senate that anointed BamBamKennedy as the coming in the spirit of the late John F. Kennedy. How long before we are Mexico? AMEN Hail this lady and that woman.
39 posted on 01/02/2011 9:22:21 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: mad_as_he$$

From the article: “It also recognizes the right of persons to migrate so that they can realize their God-given rights.”

I hope I read that quote wrong, but didn’t the Catholic Church’s Bishop’s Statement on Immigration just take the position that people have the RIGHT TO IMMIGRATE TO AMERICA?

If so, the Bishops are arguably over the theological line and into the territory of sedition/treason.

I suspect the Catholics, being a monarchical structure, have difficulties with America being a republic of sovereign citizens. Because we are sovereign citizens, we need not accept “authority”, not do we tend to accept the interpretation of the word of G*d, having Bibles of our own.

America is, at its core, Protestant. Catholicism is authoritarian in a way which must give the Catholic Bishops acute dyspepsia at times - times like this debate.

Personally, I find any specific religious “authority” claiming that God commands us to cede any portion of the Constitution to Mexicans to be ill advised, and eventually likely to cause a rejection of the Catholic Church.

No man has the “right to migrate to America” as I don’t have the right to migrate elsewhere.

I can apply for permission to move to another land, but to claim a divinely approved right for me to so do is assinine, if not overtly Liberation Theology.

PS Liberation Theology is communism with a churchy renaming plastered over the same old ancient evil.


40 posted on 01/02/2011 9:32:29 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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