Posted on 07/31/2014 3:30:27 PM PDT by NYer
For a Christians, it seems, immigration is—or should be—a complicated issue. On the one hand, charity compels those of us who are comfortable to help those who are in need, including those who seek to escape from poverty, crime, or persecution. On the other hand, a legitimate concern for preserving our own law and culture require us to set some restrictions on immigration, lest it become a virtual invasion.
Recently I came across a statement that puts the matter nicely in perspective. It would be nice to see the same balance in statements that issue from Catholic leaders both in the hierarchy and on Capitol Hill. The statement first acknowledges the demands of charity….
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. Public authorities should see to it that the natural right is respected that places a guest under the protection of those who receive him.
… and then acknowledges the need for controls:
Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants' duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.
A nice balance, don’t you think? Wouldn’t the statements from the US bishops’ conference carry more weight if they included that perspective—recognizing the obligation of immigrants to obey the law, for instance? So why don’t we hear this sort of balanced perspective from Catholic leaders?
Oh, wait. We do.
There is no balance, that is the fallacy of the argument presented. The premise that the church has to balance illegal immigration is biblically wrong.
A obvious aspect of "defending one's country" is the necessity of defending its borders against foreign invasion.
Socialist bishops (whose selective reading of the catechism provides them an excuse to stand shoulder to shoulder with those promoting the illegal invasion for political motives, such as Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Deval Patrick) are frauds. Nowhere in the catechism does it state that Catholics are required to volunteer themselves or their families to be victimized, bankrupted and exploited by lawless hordes who are invading their country for financial gain. Furthermore, these churchmen are apparently indifferent to the fact that these are CRIMINALS pouring over the border - criminals who are raping, murdering, pillaging, spreading serious diseases and draining our limited social welfare benefits. Our nation is BROKE. When the benefits inevitably run dry, these invaders will return from whence they came. Meanwhile, they are exploiting the American people with the full support of Church leaders such as Cardinals O'Malley and Gomez.
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Several family members of victims of horrific crimes committed by illegal aliens have invited House Speaker John Boehner to visit the U.S. Border with Mexico with them in a fiery letter provided exclusively to Breitbart News. “As you leave Washington, D.C. to vacation with your families, our families invite you and your entire family to spend the weekend in McAllen, Texas,” the victims' family members wrote to Boehner and other lawmakers Wednesday. “We invite you to see firsthand the invasion and lawlessness that is destroying our beloved country, and how you (and others) have given de facto permission and unfettered access to the perpetrators who have killed our loved ones, leaving our families in complete grief and disbelief as to 'how' this horrific tragedy was allowed! What about our children, Mr. Boehner? Where is the out-cry for OUR children and American families?”...
It’s horrible
You will not be hearing a balanced Catholic perspective on immigration from most of the US Bishops and Archbishops. They are a bunch of left wingers who are happy to accept $65 million from Obama & Co. at the same time that Obama & Co. are working to destroy the Christian faith in the USA. They are a bunch of hypocrites, plain and simple, from the Cardinal Archbishop of New York in the East to the Archbishop of Los Angeles in the West.
There is no distinction between communism/socialism and "subsidiarity." Subsidiarity is another just more Catholic BS. It will always devolve into communism.
This means that while the hungry infant is ‘due’ nourishment, the people who ought to provide it are his family. If they can’t, then the neighborhood, the village, then the county, then the state ... and so forth.
This is so idiotic I don't know where to begin. According to your logic its only communism if the parents are rich and the state robs someone else to pay for the infant?? If the state puts a gun to someone's head to rob them to pay for a poor infant then its "subsidiarity"?
See, there is no distinction between communism and subsidiarity except in the minds of Roman Communists who fancy themselves as more righteous than the Marxists of the atheist variety.
Sounds to me like Lawler agrees that the Catholic bishops are unbalanced!
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