Thread: Is The Catholic Church Public Enemy #1for Immigration Reform

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October 22, 2005

In America’s Struggle for Immigration Reform, Is The Catholic Church Public Enemy #1?
By Joe Guzzardi

For the Roman Catholic Church, the chronicle of sexual abuse of young boys by priests keeps getting uglier. For Catholics like me who were trusting young altar boys during that period, the news is especially disheartening.

Last week’s story in the New York Times, Los Angeles Files Recount Decades of Priests’ Abuse, John M. Broder, [October 12, 2005] revealed that incidents of predatory child molestation date back as far as 75 years.

In many cases, as reported by Broder, the Los Angeles diocese was warned about the on-going perversions but failed to act. Instead Cardinal Roger Mahony urged the priests to seek counseling and later reassigned them to other parishes. Sadly, their behavior often continued.

The case files, said by defense attorneys to be edited of much of the most damaging material, were released in anticipation of a civil suit involving 560 accusers.

(The documents are posted here: Archdiocese of Los Angeles Assistance Ministry and here: LaClergyCase.com.)

Since the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is the nation’s largest, the settlements will likely exceed any of those awarded since the sex scandals first came to light in 2002. To date, monetary awards range from $7 million paid by the Diocese of Springfield, MA. to $120 million by the Diocese of Covington, Ky.

However, these continued nauseating revelations have not shamed the Catholic Church into maintaining a lower profile.

In fact, just the opposite is true. With various amnesty and guest worker bills floating about Congress, the Catholic Church is gearing up to lead the charge for more immigrationâ€â€

The Catholic Church is not in fact presenting either a moral or a disinterested argument. A nations immigration policies are set by a process of democratic consensus which the hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church is at odds with.

Catholic priests in our country are not subject to the same type of competitive threats as are the unskilled and lesser skilled workers. The Catholic church is not trying to move priests from other countries here to replace workers as do the farms, or the contractor restaurants etc. If the Catholic priests faced the treat of having new Third World priests immigrate for a half or third of current pay then they to would be up in arms.

On a year to year basis most churches have been built and need more congregants. If the Americans Catholics come only for family marriages, funerals, Christmas and Easter holidays then the marginal donations of illegal aliens fill halls and
help bring working expenses.

and the majority of mexicans are Catholics.

Mexico: Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 6%, other 5%