Thread: Immigration reform church goal, cardinal says

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Immigration reform church goal, cardinal says

Friday, June 24, 2005
Louie Gilot
El Paso Times

The time for immigration reform has come, U.S. and Mexican Catholic workers assembled in El Paso said as the groundbreaking Binational Migration Conference opened Thursday.

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C., said the church owes it to its Hispanic faithful to push for change, as high-profile delegates gathered at the Camino Real Hotel.

"The church in the United States is very, very Hispanic and what a blessing that is. They (Hispanic immigrants) come with the values that are so needed in the United States today. When there is a moral issue that concerns so many of our people, we have to speak," McCarrick said, alternating between English and Spanish. "This is a special moment in the history of the Catholic church and the history of migration."

About 150 diocesan staff members attended the first day of the conference, the first ever along the U.S.-Mexico border. The conference will end Saturday.

Cynthia Colbert, the executive director of Catholic Charities for Central Texas, said she wanted to hear about strategies she can use back home in Austin. "We want to support the campaign (for immigration reform) through educating our own community on the benefits of immigration for all of us. It's a social justice issue for our brothers and sisters," she said.

In a training session Thursday, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops representatives outlined their plan for reform, which included:


A path toward legalization for undocumented immigrants living in the United States.


Permits for immigrants to work legally in the United States.


Expedited family reunification. Now, processing of reunification visas can take five years.

San Bernardino, Calif., Bishop Gerald Barnes, chairman of the conference's migration committee, said, "The status quo is unacceptable."

McCarrick's keynote speech after dinner dealt with migration, including from the standpoint of the Gospels, the church and the bishops' conferences.

"The simple truth is clear: We must welcome the stranger, for in his or her face we see Christ," McCarrick said. "Sadly, the migration experience today, according to the bishops of both countries, is far from the Kingdom of God that Jesus proclaimed."

The conference started with a tour of the El Paso Processing Center, the immigration jail at Montana Avenue and Hawkins Boulevard, for the bishops of El Paso, Tucson and Orlando, Fla., and 27 other Catholic workers.

"This is probably one of the best facilities in the country," said Ouisa Davis, executive director of the Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso. "We wanted them to see how it can be done. ... So they have a basis of comparison when they go back to their sectors."

Shouldn't this church be stripped of it's tax exempt status for illegally trying to influence congressional legislation?

American Catholics against this travesty. Time to consider renouncing your membership in this church. At the very least don't pay your tithing because that is money that is going into the pockets of these phoney, corrupt, globalist Cardinals to push for rewarding foreign scofflaws. Why do they want to reward these scofflaws? Because they want their tithing money. Let them survive on the tithing money from these lawbreakers alone. First they go about raping young boys and now this? Last straw if I was a Catholic. Just because you renounce your membership doesn't mean your renouncing your faith. This church is being run by corrupt, wicked men and they need to be put in their place.

Like Judy said, don't spend, save.

BISH's and CARD's.....open your arms, welcome your Hispanic friends and invite them to reunite and work and live in VATICAN CITY....your country with a government's immigration policy you have something to do with....you have nothing to do with US immigration policy; you are a spectator that has jumped on the field; and now needs to be thrown off it!!

You are also inciting civil war and a revolution in the United States and:

GOD IS WATCHING!

You sick-ass phonies! Only a moron would care what you thought at this point in time on this subject!

"The simple truth is clear: We must welcome the stranger, for in his or her face we see Christ," McCarrick said. "Sadly, the migration experience today, according to the bishops of both countries, is far from the Kingdom of God that Jesus proclaimed."

I think these poor souls have been wandering in the desert heat a bit too long. This is the soverign country of the United States--not the Kingdom of God. Feel free to take all of your illegals there and leave the US alone.
Or, if that is not possible, we can have the Federal government and the States send you a bill for the costs incurred as a result of the services used by illegals. This way you can all put your money where your mouth is.