October 07, 2007

Cardinal Mahony Strikes Again: Give Me Your Young, Strong, Dues-Paying Male Illegals—Toss Out Your Old Tired Faithful American Female Employees
By Donald A. Collins

You know how anxious Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archbishop Roger Mahony has been to import more illegal aliens into America, eventually to overstuff America's ballot boxes with the solid votes of these grateful supporters.

Writing in the online magazine American Chronicle (Above the law, Jan. 27, 2006), Barbara Anderson pointed out the strong influence the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on immigration policy.

It has caused Catholic pulpits nationwide to urge open borders for legal immigrants and illegal aliens alike, she notes. "The Catholic Campaign for Human Development uses money from generous Catholics to train illegals to lobby and agitate for 'rights' for illegals," says Anderson.

The power of this Catholic hierarchy to influence immigration policy in the US is simply not well understood.

Well, good old Roger the Dodger (of immigration laws and sanity) is at it again. As Karl Vick reports in the Washington Post article Nuns' Evictions Pose Perception Problem for Catholic Church (October 4th 2007):

"In Southern California, where the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to pay victims of pedophile priests $660 million, the archdiocese is ordering nuns out of convents so the buildings can be sold to fund the out-of-court settlement."

"Here in Santa Barbara, the sins of the fathers are being visited on the Sisters of Bethany. The three nuns living in a modest building on Nopal Street received an eviction notice last month ordering them to be out by Dec. 31. Earlier ‘would be acceptable as well,’ the letter said."

I guess Mahony must really want those young, healthy, dues-paying mostly male Hispanic parishioners if he’s willing get rid of old faithful nuns like Sister Angela Escalera, 69—who, diabetic and able to get around only with a walker, had hoped to live out her days in the Santa Barbara convent:

"This is how the archdiocese is going about getting the money to pay off the victims," said her younger sister, Rosemary Escalera Gutierrez, 64, a former nun in the order.

“‘She said: “It's such a heavy price to pay for such an ugly thing,â€