Thread: Arkansas - LR Bishop Releases Pastoral Letter On Immigration

LR Bishop Releases Pastoral Letter On Immigration
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Arkansas' bishops says Catholics should embrace all immigrants as they would the parents of Jesus on the night of his birth, regardless of how they came to the country.

Bishop Anthony B. Taylor issued his first pastoral letter this week to Catholic churches in the state, calling on the Diocese of Little Rock's more than 116,000 parishioners to understand that people have a "God-given right to immigrate."

Though the nation's borders protect its citizens, Taylor warned that federal laws only "impede human migration rather than facilitate it for the common good."

Taylor's pastoral letter, his first since being named bishop in April, was written in both Spanish and English and serves as an authoritative teaching for the diocese. The Little Rock diocese, which covers the entire state, is 55 percent Hispanic.

The pastoral letter, posted on the diocese' Web site, will be distributed to parishioners November 23. That Sunday, a recorded homily from the bishop on immigration will be played at Masses throughout the state.

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If your people are always seeking upward mobility, such as through professional careers, then, yes, there is a need to find some way to accomplish the menial work. But we also have been doing this through: automation, entrepreneurship that technologically reorganizes the work,
dispensing with unneeded services or non-beneficial products. I believe this is called "Progress." We create employment opportunities because it is the best way known to get something accomplished---not because we feel sorry for a person.

Those are the rules Americans play by----are we supposed to change them for the world?

He's looking for more alter boys ... and by the way; ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS can be just as good a Cristian in they're own native country

You dont have to be in America to be religious... matter of fact with all of the corruption in this country and in the Catholic church... the Illegal Aliens would be better served being BACK ACROSS THE BORDER,

Someone do a background check to see if this Bishop is a Pedifile

"The parents of Jesus" did not "migrate" to Bethlehem in order to "better their lives". If anything, going to Bethlehem worsened their lives since they were required to go there in order to pay their Roman taxes. ("Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and unto God that which is God's," as the babe born to them there later said.)