Thread: The church sell out: Barbara Simpson blasts comparison of illegal aliens to Christ

Exclusive: Barbara Simpson blasts comparison of illegal aliens to Christ

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Barbara Simpson
8/25/2013

Not content to make random comments of support of making illegals “legal,” there’s now a massive plan involving advertising, phone calls and marches, to push the issue, and to have nationwide Sunday sermons in support of across-the-board amnesty.

You’d think Catholic bishops would have more common sense – to say nothing of a better understanding of basic Catholic teachings.

I thought they were smarter than that. Don’t they see the handwriting on the wall?

But, no, I hope for too much. Part of me clings to the belief that men of the cloth, at that level especially, would put their religion and the teachings of Christ ahead of crass politics.

Politics? In the Church? You bet and, quite frankly, the good men in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, or USCCB, are in it up to their eyebrows and are playing with fire.

Think “immigration” – more specifically “immigration amnesty.”

Until recently, the Church played a somewhat background role in its position on immigration – uh, no, not just “immigration,” which is usually benign and refers to the legally accepted procedures for a person from one country to enter another.

Where the Church has dramatically changed is in the issue of illegal immigration.

Not content to make random comments of support of making illegals “legal,” there’s now a massive plan involving advertising, phone calls and marches, to push the issue, and to have nationwide Sunday sermons in support of across-the-board amnesty. Kevin Appleby, USCCB director of migration policy, told the New York Times, the hierarchy considers this a “now or never moment.”

In other words, anyone in this country without the proper legal papers, should be allowed to stay with legal status because … well, because they’re breathing and because they want to be here and besides, it’s the Christian thing to do.

That’s essentially the spiel to rank and file parishioners, which is quite frankly, pushing a guilt trip on them. The rest of the plan is to steamroll Congress.

Just check the USCCB website. It’s all spelled out. They want immigration reform passed and soon!

It’s felt that if the hierarchy talks about amnesty and immigration reform, it will not only put the squeeze on elected officials, it will get parishioners to pressure Washington.

Remember, elections are coming, and politicians want every vote they can get. If they can subvert religious teaching to get that support, so be it.

As for the Church, they almost compare illegals to Christ, and I don’t mean that as sacrilege. To hear some of the sermons I’ve heard over the months, you’d think that every illegal in this country is holy and pious.

Would that were true, but it isn’t and there are the statistics of abuse and crime to illustrate reality.

Illegals are just people, and in the mix are all the good and bad traits of which humans are capable. To pretend otherwise is patently deceptive, especially when expressed by people who represent God – and the Catholic hierarchy does just that.

When a priest, bishop or cardinal speaks from the pulpit or writes under his religious byline or as a member of the USCCB, he represents his Church and his God. His position carries weight and influence, and that’s the problem.

He tries to shame people into supporting legalization for the 11 million illegals they say are here. But that’s a fake figure they’ve used for years, ignoring that more than a million cross the border annually. It’s more than 35 million, but no one really knows.

The accusation is that being against immigration reform implies you degrade the humanity of those people.

What nonsense!

Wanting people to be in this country legally has nothing to do with their humanity. It has to do with the responsibility of a country to assure safe and secure borders for citizens and that everyone who enters the country obeys the laws.

For a Church that stresses the Ten Commandments and the Bible and the Catechism and that teaches the difference between right and wrong, truth and lies, honesty and deception – it’s strange and troubling to hear spokesmen endorsing lawbreakers and wanting them to get blanket forgiveness and to collect all the benefits of citizenship by doing essentially nothing.

As for playing with fire, it appears Church Fathers haven’t paid attention to the growing movement to demand that all churches lose their tax-free status.

That’s the long-standing nod by government recognizing the good work traditionally done by churches, but it carries with it the expectation that the hierarchy steer clear of politics.

That’s why you don’t hear sermons focusing on candidates or homilies promoting or denigrating legislation they may or may not favor.

I admit, they get pretty close to the line sometimes, but generally it’s a line they don’t cross. It’s too expensive a risk.

Tax exemption is a terrific perk for churches – and one they should want to maintain, but with the immigration push and the controversies over the requirements of Obamacare, that may be about to change.

And, quite frankly, if they continue to push amnesty and if they cave to the demands of Obamacare provisions, they’ll deserve to lose that tax exemption.

Unfortunately, playing loose with morality is affecting Catholic teaching to their young. The University of Notre Dame just announced it will admit illegal aliens as students and will meet all their financial needs!

Don Bishop, associate vice president of undergraduate enrollment, was quoted in the Washington Times as saying it would “strengthen their incoming class and give deserving young people the chance for a Notre Dame education.

What sophistry. I would suggest they just open enrollment to “deserving” students from anywhere in the world, not just illegals in this country.

It’s all a trap – with the Church creeping toward the center of a web and about to be swallowed by the waiting federal spider.

“Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do.”

Except, they know exactly what they’re doing.

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refugeeresettlementwatch
Posted by Ann Corcoran on August 26, 2013




Kevin Appleby, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops lobbyist pushing amnesty for money!

This is a good article at Breitbart, but like most other news outlets they assume that the Catholic Church’s campaign for amnesty is being driven by its desire to add Hispanics to its dwindling flocks (and to show that they are good Christians), but few ever look at the fact that the Bishops are being funded by massive amounts of taxpayer dollars and the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill that passed the Senate will give them gobs of more money!

Right now the Bishops are over 98% funded by tax dollars* and they are being paid to get refugees and asylees hooked up with social services. S. 744 contains a slush fund for the Bishops and others of the religious Left to do that same work for the newly legalized—help them do their paperwork, find jobs, find welfare, sign them up for Obamacare, and supposedly get them English lessons.

I’m a fallen-away Catholic and the main reason is this: I want no politics mixed with my religious worship, and the Church will have to really make sure they get the Hispanics because hearing a Leftwing political message (as is planned for September 8th) from the pulpit will only serve to drive more conservative-minded people from the Church.

Breitbart (hat tip: Cathy):

If you attend Mass on September 8th, it is likely the priest’s homily will be less about spiritual matters and more about the political imperative of passing an amnesty law for the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants. Last week, the Catholic Church announced a massive, coordinated effort to press Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship. Catholics make up the largest single religious group in Congress.

“We want to try to pull out all the stops,” Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, told the New York Times. Appleby said the immigration issue was at a now-or-never moment. “They have to hear the message that we want this done, and if you’re not successful during the summer, you’re not going to win by the end of the year.”
The Church is planning advertising, phone calls and marches targeting 60 Catholic House Republicans. Over 130 members of the House are Catholic, including Speaker John Boehner.

The Bishops are working harder on amnesty then on Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate and abortion!

The Church’s effort in support of amnesty seems broader and more coordinated than its actions against an ObamaCare mandate requiring coverage of contraception. In recent years, the Church has been more vocal in its criticism of abortion, but even that seems muted in comparison with current plans on immigration reform.

The Bishop’s lobbyist Appleby (Director of Migration Policy) will be pimping for amnesty and giving out marching orders in Minneapolis on September 4th. If you live in the area you might want to drop in on this meeting. After all, you help pay Appleby’s salary.

*The USCCB and YOUR money

Now check out the USCCB’s migration fund 2012 annual report (pdf here) and note on page 11 their income and expenses (I’ve rounded the numbers for easier reading).

Out of a revenue stream of $71 million, federal grants and contracts (that is you the taxpayer!) gave them $66 million. They also received $3.6 million from refugee travel loans. Your tax dollars pay for refugees to fly to America and then they are supposed to reimburse the government, but in fact a big chunk of whatever the refugee contractor extracts from the poor refugees, the contractor gets to keep—in the Bishops case, in 2012, that is $3.6 million that does not go back to the US Treasury.

Taking Caesar’s money! 98% of their budget is paid by the US taxpayer!

So, the USCCB only received $1.4 million from private sources of money (parishioners), but they paid salaries of $8 million!
The USCCB would wither on the vine and not be able to lobby if you, the taxpayer, weren’t funding them!
So, come on Breitbart! Let’s go a little deeper with your reporting!

http://refugeeresettlementwatch.word...n-for-amnesty/

Coming to a Church Near You: Catholic Officials Will Be Pushing Amnesty For Illegal A

Sadly it's all about growing the church membership, the Democrats want illegals for votes, the wealthy GOP business leaders want them for cheap labor, who says slavery is dead.

Yes oldguy, growing membership and filling church coffers. What a shame!!

How's that illegal alien amnesty drive workin' out for ya?

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