Posted on 09/09/2013 9:59:54 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Dioceses across the United States placed special emphasis on immigration during Masses on Sunday, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
September 8 had been selected by the US bishops' conference as a day for special focus on the question of immigration. The nationwide campaign was complicated when Pope Francis asked for a worldwide campaign of prayer for peace in Syria during the same weekend.
In some dioceses, plans for a campaign to muster Catholic support for immigration reform were set aside temporarily, as parishes joined in the Pope's campaign of prayers for peace. In Arizona, Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson explained that while the prayers for peace might take precedence on September 8, "we are certainly continuing our efforts to encourage members to support immigration reform." In other dioceses, the immigrant message remained on the top of the agenda.
Some bishops asked all priests to preach on immigration during weekend Masses. According to US bishops’ Justice for Immigrants campaign:
•“Diocese of Arlington, VA: Bishop Paul Loverde has asked pastors in the diocese to talk about immigration at Masses during the weekend.”
•“Diocese of Buffalo: At the request of Bishop Richard Malone, concern for immigrants must be mentioned at all Masses this weekend.”
•“Archdiocese of Kansas City, KS: Archbishop Joseph Nauman [sic] asked his priests to speak on immigration at the Sunday Masses.”
•“Archdiocese of Los Angeles: Archbishop Jose Gomez has asked every parish (288 in all) in the Archdiocese to dedicate at least one Mass for Immigration Reform this weekend. If this does not fit into the parish schedule, parishes are asked to celebrate a special mass for this intention sometime in September.”
•“Diocese of Reno: Bishop Randolph Calvo has asked all parishes to focus on immigration on Sunday, September 8.”
•“Diocese of Richmond, VA: Bishop Francis DiLorenzo has asked pastors in the diocese to talk about immigration at Masses during the weekend.”
Isn’t that interesting? My pastor is also a former Air Force chaplain.
His homily on Sunday (for our TLM Mass) said absolutely nothing about immigration. He DID, however remind us that unlike in the past, when the threat was “Godless totalitarianism,” (Communism), the most pressing threat today is “God-obsessed totalitarianism.” (Islam.)
I live on Long Island, in the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
Regards,
Not ours. Our priest talked about Gayle Sayers wearing “I am Third” around his neck and reminding us all to act the same.
Nothing said at mine. This appears to have been contained to parishes and localities that are already majority Hispanic.
I think once word of this leaked they had more to lose than to gain.
I am an usher in a Catholic Church and believe me, nutjobs are always leaving leaflets around expressing a whole manner of strange and extreme views. Many not in keeping with Church teaching.
You're welcome.
Nothing at our Parish in Reno.
My local parish hosts Spanish masses. My mother attended one once and regarded the behavior exhibited there as disrespectful, especially to the host.
To clarify, the leaflets at the local church were probably targeting such attendees, since they were bilingual.
1. I don’t think you were responding to my post, because you’re response had nothing to do with my post.
2. The Catholics that I know that attend Mass every weekend, or more, are conservative. You statement is flat out wrong.
3. I’m guessing by your Freeper name (vulgar humor) that your disillusionment with Catholicism has little to do with Catholicism itself, rather just a distaste for organized religion in general.
He then mentioned the Pope's statement discouraging use of military force on Syria. Parenthetically he added he assumes the Pope is against use of poison gas on civilians.
Then he got to the Gospel, on which he said he's supposed to preach and did a good job there.
And yet the bishops who advance this stuff are "in church" every single day.
ROTFL!
You mean 6 out of the 195 diocesean leaders?
That would be 3% of them.
We are in the Los Angeles diocese. Nothing was said about immigration at our masses. We did pray for Syria and world peace.
Nothing about immigration was mentioned during our Mass, here in Tallahassee. There was a very moving presentation by a Sister from a religious community in the Philippines, that rescues children from prostitution and human trafficking.
“More Mexicans = More Catholics = More power and more $$$$$”
You are 100% CORRECT.
We didn’t hear a peep about immigration—illegal or otherwise— in our priest’s homily yesterday. He preached right from the Gospel, like he always does. And I live in Arizona and our parish has a HUGE Spanish-speaking population.
Didn’t happen at my church.
We are building a new church because what you call “nominally Cahtolic” (BTW, it is the Latin rite, not the Roman rite) buldge out the church doors into the vestibule at the Spanish Mass, and two out of the other three are building with a diverse crowd of worshippers.
Where are you getting your mistaken information?
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