Posted on 06/10/2013 6:48:52 PM PDT by haffast
New York City, N.Y., Jun 10, 2013 / 02:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Stressing that immigration reform is needed to “correct injustices,” Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said that the proposed bill in the U.S. Senate makes serious progress in efforts to balance humanitarian and security concerns.
“The Senate proposal, while not perfect, goes a long way toward correcting injustices in the system,” the Archbishop of New York wrote in a June 9 column for USA Today. “Despite its shortcomings, the bill significantly improves upon the status quo and will assist millions of families.”
“We look forward to continuing to work with Congress to improve the legislation, and we applaud lawmakers of both parties who are working together to bring 11 million people out of the shadows.”
Speaking for the U.S. bishops, Cardinal Dolan wrote that immigration is “close to Catholic hearts,” the Church having helped to integrate immigrants into the American way of life for generations.
He explained that much-needed immigration reform must highlight America's “legitimate needs of security” as well as “our heritage of welcoming immigrants and the gifts they bring.”
“We bishops call for practical and humane immigration reform grounded in the Catholic experience,” he wrote.
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The Catholic hierarchy is only loyal to Rome. They claim 'social justice' while they rob US blind. I cannot wait for their reaping of the seeds they have sown. Thou shall not steal is still in effect. And Christ said you break one you break them all. There is nothing holy about this.
What a great way to create 11 million more demrats!
Don’t worry, the good Cardinal has approved abortion too. Ask Pelosi, or Kennedy, or Kerry, they’ll tell you he’s approved.
Are you one of them?
I think Dolan looks around and realizes that the problem isn’t immigration, but welfare.
And here, I thought it was ok to welcome in Christians who actually practice their religion. Apparently this is not so.
Everything I’ve seen suggests they are prolife, and that they actually have children and then go to church, etc.
One would think they would be prime recruiting field for the republican party if the republican party supported these things.
The US has had much more open immigration in the past, they also didn’t have a welfare system. Dump welfare, keep immigration - get the folks willing to work.
You want to know who changed things to our current quota based policy? Wilson. The same fella who put in income tax. I think he was just as wrong on immigration as he was on everything else.
Here comes the Catholic Knife in the back.
'cause we're Mexico's sump pump.
I really don’t feel sorry or Mexicans ~ I do feel sorry for Canadians though. Their country has had them lined up near the border ready to invade for some 200 years or so ~ gotta’ get boring as all get out in the Canadian winter!
A Cardinal agreeing with illegal. I’m not surprised. Those we came here earlier had to have a sponsor who would provide for them and with a job lined up. There weren’t illegal, nor drunks, nor looking for a handout.
Big difference, Cardinal. Confession time for you and you will get your penance in the after life. Contributing to illegal activities - I guess doing that in the Vatican got boring - now you are taking it to the streets. Only homo’s chose to wear dresses over wearing pants.
So do catholics vote for the ‘rats.
Someone should tell Cardinal Doofus that illegal and injustice are not the same!
—— .This is why the RC Church is the most profitable multinational corporation. ——
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Vatican assets are valued at $1 billion, 5% of Harvard’s endowment, or $1 for each Catholic.
“One cannot really be a Catholic and grownup.”
George Orwell, “Manuscript Notebook”, 1949
The GOP platform is pro-life, and pro-family, but Catholics prefer the democrat platform, and always have, Catholics have always been democrats with the exception of about five presidential elections.
The democrats knew what they were doing when they moved to overcome the American voter.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
Republicans are prolife? Since when?
Last I checked they nominated Goldwater (pro abortion), Nixon twice (pro abortion, pro abortion). Ford (pro abortion). Bob Dole (pro abortion), Mitt Romney (pro abortion).
Since Goldwater in 64, there have been 6 republican pro choice nominees. Exactly half the time, the republicans have been pro choice.
That is the definition of ‘completely irrelevant’ on this issue. There needs to be a party that is consistantly prolife. (ie, not the GOP).
Shhh. The freepers going around spreading the fantasy that JFK was "more conservative than today's Republicans" don't want to be reminded of the truth.
Maybe you should go look up what Wilson did as well. ;) Wilson gave Kennedy all the tools to set things up. Before - the government couldn’t prevent people from coming to America because they didn’t fit the quota. Post-Wilson, they can and could.
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