Some 30,000 people gathered last Sunday for the 17th March for Life, Peace and Migrants in Tijuana, Mexico.
Led by the Archbishop of Tijuana, Francisco Moreno Barrón, participants marched from the former bullfighting stadium, Toreo de Tijuana, to the Tijuana Auditorium, where they arrived at 11:30 am.
Before the march on March 19, the Archbishop of Tijuana prayed for the migrants and young people depicted on the wall at Aeropuerto y Cuauhtémoc Norte Boulevard. “We want to make present on this wall all our brother migrants, not just those who cross this border, but all the migrants from all over the world,” the prelate said.
“The entire human community is one family, which came forth from the hands of God out of love. And we are called to live united in love as one family,” he added.
The archbishop said that “unfortunately because of selfishness in the world, the selfishness in the human heart, walls have been raised up, not just in past times, but also in the present, which seek to divide us, alienate us and also at times to confront us.”
Instead of walls, he said, what is needed are “spaces, elements, bridges which would rather bring us closer together and help us build fraternity, so that we can live in peace and realize in our midst God’s dream for his children: that they live united and in peace.”
The march started around 9:00 am and began with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. During the march, Archbishop Moreno carried a cross as a symbol of the crosses that migrants carry.
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i wonder why they are wearing liturgical garb and not black with roman collars. i hope it’s not because they don’t own roman collars anymore. at least for protest purposes i think the collar makes a better public identity. i also know that the hateful mexican government of not too long ago prohibited the wearing of clerical garb. all the more reason to reclaim that piece of real estate. the bishop is clothed in non-liturgical garb.
i mean, i know the march began with adoration, which explains albs. but the bishop had time to change inyo clerics.
Why is law and order at our borders not an issue to some in the Catholic community? It is common sense that a nation must have law and order at its borders.
To speak up on that issue is equally as important as working to dignify those who want to immigrate to our Country and begin a new life – but legally and with respect to the nation one seeks to enter.
Why are some clergy silent on that issue?
Well, maybe it is because some who approach our borders do so to escape torture and death. Another point is that most people who become undocumented immigrants don’t do so at our Southern border. Most of the people who remain here without documentation came here WITH documentation but overstayed their visas. Lastly, this notion that unlawfulness and disorder comes from within the immigrant population forgets that most unlawfulness and disorder comes from native born Americans.
As far as I’m concerned this is exactly the same kind of stuff which has happened to the Fortnight for Freedom here in the U.S. Originally begun as a pro-life effort, it was soon co-opted to include “peace and justice” items, Note the pope’s statement link on the following USCCB page and the link to the statement on discriminating against Catholic Humanitarian Services:
https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/fortnight-for-freedom/fortnight-for-freedom-fact-sheets.cfm
Next time there is a pro-amnesty, pro-open borders event, maybe pro-lifers ought to show up with their own signs.
And you thought scofflaw Mexican prelates only operated north of the border.