The following comes from a December 23 Catholic Culture article:
Writing in L’Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Roger Mahony, who served as archbishop of Los Angeles from 1985 to 2011, discussed the plight of “DREAMers”: persons who were brought illegally to the United States by their parents when they were children.
(DREAM is a reference to the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, a bill that was first introduced in the US Congress in 2001.)
“While President-elect Donald J. Trump has pledged to implement several severe immigration policies, including the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants and the construction of a wall on the Mexican border, the most pressing and imminent challenge his incoming administration presents on this critical issue is its promise to rescind the DACA program,” Cardinal Mahony wrote.
The DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) program—implemented by President Barack Obama in 2012—has protected 770,000 “DREAMers” from deportation and has allowed them to work, the prelate said.
Cardinal Mahony also discussed the prospect of resistance to deportations:
Unlike the border wall and several other aspects of his immigration proposals, upon the moment he assumes office next month, President-elect Trump will be able to eliminate the DACA program with the stroke of a pen. He will, however, find that removing these young people will not be so easy. I believe that the American people will not allow it, both in terms of public opinion and in active resistance.
In other words, I believe Americans will not cooperate with Mr. Trump’s administration on implementing mass deportations, most especially the deportation of young immigrants … Should President-elect Trump move to eliminate DACA, calls have already emerged for churches and communities to protect them by not cooperating with immigration enforcement and by providing sanctuary for those likely to be affected.
is it really catholic to pre-emptively complain before we give the president-elect a chance to get his policies in action. making threats only stirs up animosity in advance. and makes it harder for those voters who are embittered to see who the president really is in action. in so many other areas we already see that the harshnesss of trump’s campaigning speech has not translated into harsh actions. it would be deeply resented if the foormer archbishop of los angeles had kibbitzed and threatened from the sidelines while mahoney was trying to establish his approach in the archdiocese. let him do unto trump as he expected it to be done…
Roger Cardinal Mahony is a disgrace to our Church. Was it easy for His Eminence to expend $640,000,000.00 of our contributions to save himself? Did he enjoy playing the Churchman to Cesar Chavez Alinsky?
So Mahony wants us to “resist” The President of The United States? As for the “dreamers” Mahony why don’t you pay for them including: medical, food, a mortgage, child care, schooling, clothing etc. You see LIBERALS love to tell us what to do and say and pay for everybody else, why? Because they are “entitled” to everything America has to offer! Folks most of our grandparents here on this blog came from someplace else and asked for nothing or demanded all of the benefits America had to offer, continued.
In Mahony’s mind only Hispanics matter, and we are called racists for wanting to close the border and have law and order. Folks just how many people can continue to pour across the border and live here for free, never having to learn English or assimilate into OUR culture? In Los Angeles you don’t have to learn English or assimilate, by the way, growing up in Los Angeles I can tell you first hand one would think Los Angeles is either Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras or Guatemala, YOU must learn Spanish in order to live there simple as that.
It is neither true that you can live in California for free or that you must learn Spanish in order to live there. Simply made up nonsense.
If we all believe in the “same” God as Bergoglio, fellow liberals, many priests and bishops tell us everyday, then why would anyone want to become a Roman Catholic there is no point. But please remember that ISLAM and Judiism don’t believe in the same God as Christians, hence we DON’T believe in the same God as the LEFT tells us constantly. Muslims and Jews don’t preach that, so why does the Pope and Christian Left continully say we do???? Just over 50 years ago the Roman Catholic Church taught that IT was the ONE TRUE CHURCH AND FAITH remember that, so now it says we are all the same, meaning the Church was wrong all this time.
I believe that a cardinal that hides priest who have committed Paedophile crimes is not suited to judging political figures anywhere in the world. A bishop, or cardinal should demonstrate his adherence to the Moral Code of the Catholic Faith, FIRST, and NOT Judge a man before he has acted. This Cardinal acts out of Prejudice, irrationally gross fears, and is dissociated from the necessary morals of the Catholic Families.
Why can the Catholic Church take the same stance that they did in the past when refugees from Cuba arrived “legally ” in this country extended a hand of help but stayed away from politics
They are with this attitude making many Catholics to stay away or look for alternative way of worshipping
Time to denounce the illegals and stay away from politics concentrate in religious matters and stop conciliating with the enemies of faith
As we were told a group of teenagers of the Cuban Catholic Students by our sponsor upon us joining the fight against the communist regime in Cuba and us asking for his blessings:
“THE CATHOLICS OF TODAY ARE NO LONGER MARTYRS
THEY ARE WARRIORS AND AS SUCH SHOULD FIGHT THE FORCES OF LUCIFER THAT MEAN TO…
Has the Bishop actually listened or read what Pres. Elect Trump has actually said? Trump wants to deport Illegal aliens with CRIMINAL RECORDS ONLY. He may want to actually research, the lying media, prior to making all of the hysterical statements.
Obamas policy too
Does the good cardinal support the existing wall on the southern border of Mexico or Mexicos draconian immigration policies? Never hear anyone talk about those.
How did this evil man become a cardinal in the Catholic church? Are the church’s leaders so truly vile and corrupt?
Some would say that is the standard way that one becomes a cardinal in the Roman Church. Simply look at its history.
O-O-T. (Out OF Touch)
This man is so evil that he conspired with Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Currie that they would send pederast priests to psychotherapists that were also lawyers so the Cardinal would be protected by attorney-client privilege.
I bring this up now because Cardinal Mahony and Bishop Currie expelled US from the Ventura Mission Latin Mass that had been held every Sunday for 16 years. What a high point for their careers.
Nope, you’re wrong about the EF Mass moving from the Ventura Mission to St Mary Magdalene in Camarillo. That happened only a couple of years ago, after Mahony was long gone from leading the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It’s a better venue in Cam. anyhow. Ventura Main street was too loud on a Sunday afternoon during Mass, and the Holier-than-thou Catholics inside kept the church doors shut. Like an oven in there during the summers………..so holy to sweat out the Mass! (sarc)
This reminds me of when Mother Angelica, EWTN, said that she would not cooperate with Cardinal Mahony due to his attacking the sacred teachings of the Catholic Church. Now, Cardinal Mahony is attacking the United States. Cardinal Mahony is part of the schism in the Catholic Church and the United States.
And the utter insanity continues in the Novus Ordo world, in Eisenstadt Austria on Christmas Day the Bishop Aegidius Zsifkovics had the baby Jesus in a “boat” not a crib and said Jesus is a “refugee” this continues to be the new game of the Novus Ordo including Bergoglio equating MUSLIMS with Our Lord. His argument is that Europe must accept more MUSLIMS if not it would “destabilize and collapse” our society! WHAT?? So by letting in more invaders i.e. MUSLIMS this makes Europe better?? Did this Leftist bishop not see what happened in Berlin last week? I just cannot comprehend the thinking of these Novus Ordo bishops, folks Europe as we know it is on the verge of collapse.
Just look at the bishop and tells you right away Novus Ordo silliness with his vestments printed with newspaper stories and his pectoral cross “wavy” so 70’s, all this can be seen at Breitbart.com. I just don’t get the German speaking bishops in Austria, Germany and Switzerland how did they become SO SO out there? Balloons, clowns, dancing girls, polka, strobe lights, Zulu war drums, bizarre vestments, and all of this in the context of the Novus Ordo Mass.
True Catholics need to not cooperate with Church clerics like Cardinal Mahony. Further, why even give him a platform for his Zombie-Liberal garbage? He has no standing to speak about politics, any more than John Q. Public. You are welcome to your opinion C. Mahony, now go home. And, while you are at it, get a job to pay back the people of your Diocese that you robbed over the years, advocating for issues not within your sphere of competency and, for those that are, for failing to properly act as their shepherd.
You have to understand even the most LIBERAL of Europeans are going to say enough is enough, of all people the Dutch have awakened to the fact that Holland is overrun with Moroccans, thanks to the efforts of Dutch politician Geert Wilders a very brave man who is standing alone against the MUSLIM invasion of Holland. Folks its going to be very very bad in Europe this year, the killings, bombings, rapes, will only get worse and it will finally push the ethnic Europeans to step up and say NO MORE!!
All people are obligated to obey JUST laws of the country where they live. The vast majority of the illegals are here for monetary reasons. Just because one is a foreigner does not mean he is exempt from the valid and moral laws which the nation has a duty and a right to enforce. The Holy Family were NOT illegal aliens, and to equate Them with Moslems and illegal aliens is absurd and insane. But them how can a cleric who disobeyed Church law be expected to obey civil law.
I also find it very odd that the Democrat party NEVER liked the Cuban immigrants to this country, talk about assimilating and becoming Americans quickly and getting involved in the process as well. Me thinks the reason is that most not all Cubans are Republicans and conservatives, for they have been the VICTIMS of Communism and Socialism while living in Cuba, yep that’s it folks that’s why the Democrat party does not like our Cuban immigrants, the Cubans HATE Communism and Socialism. Your homes and property are here one day and boom gone the next the day taken by Castro. Thank God for the Cubans of Miami for they voted overwhelmingly for Trump and that was the key to his Florida victory. Gracias Cubanos
This is a pathetic opportunity on Cardinal Mahony’s part to get some press coverage. Sounds like he’s calling for disrespect of our Country’s freely elected President-in-waiting. If it’s okay to disrespect the highest officials of our country, maybe we can also tune-out Cardinals?
in 2013 the cardinal was relieved of public duties in the archdiocese and, well, the church. it seems that this would mean making public calls to action and organizing that his article seems to be. has the battery on the ankle bracelet somehow run low and not set off the ‘off-the=ranch’ warning?
Desperation Immigration is different than seeking Asylum, as it is most often economically driven. Still – when Criminal Gangs control and corrupt the ‘government’ so badly that the difference is academic, then people will do what they have to to survive.
The Key to controlling the Immigration Process (we all descend from immigrants – the Continent Has No Natives, just tribes that got here long before anyone else) is to help people where they already live.
The biggest problem – is Corruption and Looting of the Aid process supposed to help such people sustain themselves in their own country. Mexico is notoriously corrupt, and despite its great resources and mostly hard working population, depends on remittence money sent from the…
Cardinal Mahony, please do us all a favor and be quiet. Find a place to settle, out of public sight, and pray until the Lord calls you home. We have already heard more than enough from you.
While not agreeing that this is proper, I daresay that most Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles have no interest in the Cardinal’s opinions, after reminding themselves of the fruits of his tenure. He would better serve himself and the faithful by remaining silent. To reply that, just as every private citizen, he enjoys freedom of speech, is disingenuous. In the public’s mind, he will always be associated with his former office—and probably not to good effect.