The following comes from a Nov. 20 statement by Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles on the Angelus news site.
I am happy that some temporary relief is being offered to help parents and children who right now are living in daily fear that their families will be broken up by arrests and deportations.
But the President’s actions today are no substitute for the comprehensive immigration reform our nation needs.
Our system is broken and needs modernized to meet the realities of a global economy. Everyone knows that. And because the system is broken, many of our neighbors are suffering, including millions of families and children.
Too many families are being torn apart by deportations, uncertainty about their status, and delays in our visa process that can take years, even decades. Too many men and women who are immigrants are being exploited in the workplace and forced to live in society’s shadows.
As a nation, all of us — not only our leaders — have a responsibility. We cannot turn our heads and continue to look the other way while our brothers and sisters need our help. We all need to work together — citizens, faith communities, government agencies and elected officials.
So I welcome this action because it will provide some relief for millions of people who are in great need. But the relief is not permanent and the problems are still not fixed. Now is the time for us to make new efforts and new commitments to help our leaders in Washington set aside their differences and come together to find solutions that are just, compassionate, lasting and comprehensive.
To read the original statement, click here.
The Bishops themselves by their support of ILLEGAL immigration,
support the continued breaking up of families, more drug trafficking, more sex trafficking, and even murder.
By their support of Obama violating the US Constitution they further condone lawlessness.
The Bishops also teach violation of the Doctrine of the Faith whereby in CCC :2241 which OBLIGES Immigrants to OBEY the LAWs (and this does not exclude immigration laws).
It goes deeper than that:
Our Bishops tell us all to learn Spanish. They insist that our priests all learn Spanish. They insist that we have Spanish Masses available. The truth is that they are contributing to the abuse and isolation of Hispanic women. The men learn English so they can work. The children learn English at school. the women are nearly captive in their homes unless they can be around other women at church, because they have no occasion t learn to speak English. The Church encourages the continued use of Spanish so they don’t learn there either. They are kept in limbo. Many would prefer to go back home to live by their families of origin.
The Church seems to prefer this system; we cater to it! We keep them in this state because we think it is compassionate. It is not.
It would be better for all who seek to live in America, if they first learn the language, develop a skill and can demonstrate that they have a job waiting for them that can support a family w/o benefits from the government (our tax dollars) before they are allowed to enter.
Our school system, our hospital, our clinics and our parishes are bending to the point of breaking! We have no more money to give. We are broke. Don’t break up your family to come here. It is morally wrong for their families and for ours unless you can prove that you can be self-supporting and all members of your family speak English.
It is disingenuous for any Bishop and for Obama to scare people by saying that many who are already here will be deported. (It is physically impossible.)
Those who break additional laws deserve to be deported immediately (and they can take their families with them if the families value being together).
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Yes we certainly do need to fix our immigration laws – which starts with border enforcement.
The Great Wall of China is 13,171 miles long, and they had no heave equipment.
Israel has built a wall in recent times to protect its borders.
Surely Americans can build a Wall with openings for legal immigration and legal trade. It can be done using the Military engineers, and criminal prisoners who need to earn their keep rather than mooch off of the society they violated.
A pastor must first of all take care of his flock. The archbishop’s flock are the citizens of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, NOT Mexico, or Central America. For way too many years, Catholic citizens of the United States have been put on the back burner while Marxist leaning bishops have catered to illegals.What this does is it makes legal citizens feel they are not respected or valued, so they leave the Church and either join another one, or just quit believing in God. All bishops and priests must have as their primary goal the sanctification of souls. Social work comes second, and MUST NEVER replace the spiritual welfare of souls. When we pray the Hail Holy Queen, we refer to our life here on earth as a VEIL OF TEARS. If we try to make our Heaven here in this world, we will spend eternity in Hell, or a very long period in Purgatory. The saints have told us: If we do not suffer penances in this life, we will certainly suffer them in the life to come.
Using compassion as a faux excuse, the USCCB continues to get money from the Federal Government to the tune of about $63 MILLION annually for its CCHD, Catholic Charities, and CRS.
When did Jesus state His Church should partner with any government, and do the government’s job for them (which the government is capable of doing itself).
Why did the Bishops support through Federal Grant money the importation of unaccompanied children – whose parents are not in this Country ?
Isn’t this the breaking up of families?
It’s all about the money. Follow the money.
$63 Million annually in Federal Government grants to keep their bureaucracies funded and growing;
and because Bishops do not teach the Faith which is their first task with Americans, they hope to fill more pews with ILLEGAL aliens for more money.
This is why Bishops would rather not merely send needed money and needed goods to those truly in need in Latin American Countries.
Is this so hared to figure out ?
The immigrants from Mexico do not support our parish…they only use/abuse our facilities and contribute very little.
Archbishop Gomez is contributing to the fall of democracy in our country and the rise of dictatorship.
At the recently televised USCCB Conference, Abp Wenski gave a report about a study that took place in the USA over the past few years.
Selected Diocese participated and those included were;
Priests, Married Young Adults, Single Young Adutls, baptized Catholics who rarely attend Mass, those who attend Mass on a regular basis, Hispanics.
There were two glaring issues that ALL of the groups thought were important::
1) that better teaching (catechesis) was needed with the reasons “WHY”;
and
2) that Bishops get out of politics.
Do you think most US Bishops will consider these? Probably not, because many Bishops are too entrenched in the ways of the world.
MAC, with all due respect, I think the Bishops have a right to insert themselves into politics as much as anyone. Jesus himself did not shy away from “politics”. The issue, as I see it, is that many of the Bishops are involved in public sin by their stance on encouraging local and National politicians to violate our constitution and our laws. They are committing public sin by further encouraging people who have come here, or stay here illegally, to violate the law. We have a right to expect the preaching of the whole Gospel message from our Bishops from their Cathedrals as well as in the political arena.
First solution: CLOSE THE BORDER!!!
Peggy, tell us how to do it. Nobody of either party has been able to do it. How would you do it? You would get a lot of support if your plan worked
Bob One,
It is easy to close the border.
The wall of China is over 13,000 miles long.
Our border with Mexico is less than 2,000 miles.
With today’s heavy equipment and technology, it should be a breeze.
Use
1) the Army Corp of Engineers,
2) the Army;
3) able bodied persons who can not find work and are on government assistance,
4) and criminal/prisoners who need to earn their keep for their crimes against society.
Build a wall with appropriate entrances/exits for LEGAL immigration, and LEGAL trade only.
It is not difficult at all, but you are right that Americans need to pressure both political parties to get the job done.
Your post is very well done, Peggy.
We all should be writing this to each of our own Congressmen.
“Use
1) the Army Corp of Engineers,
2) the Army;
3) able bodied persons who can not find work and are on government assistance,
4) and criminal/prisoners who need to earn their keep for their crimes against society.
Build a wall with appropriate entrances/exits for LEGAL immigration, and LEGAL trade only.”
If we can send people to the Moon surely we are not so stupid that we can not build a wall.
Bob One, why did you NOT respond to Peggy’s post of November 24, 2014 at 5:20am in answer to your specific question ? ? ? ? ?
The least you could do is thank her for her logical, and well thought out answer.
This is America, not Communist Germany.
HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE BORDER? THERE IS A WALL! HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO CHINA? THAT WALL IS A TOURIST TRAP.
Any chance we can deport Archbishop Gomez? He is an improvement over Mahony, but I weary of his constant focus on illegal immigrants. I’m sorry the families of those who broke our immigration laws are suffering, but we have a legal process for applying for citizenship. I’d rather he focus on spiritual matters, and leave immigration to the government and the voters.
Carol,
PLease name one way Gomez is an improvement over phoney baloney Mahony! It certainly isn’t the heresy filled REC!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
One thing I can say is that Bishop Gabino Zavala, who had a girlfriend and two teenage children, finally resigned under Gomez. Mahony must have known, but kept Zavala on.
Kenneth, one more time you don’t tell us what is heresy about the REC. Please tell us so that we know what you are talking about.
Kenneth Fisher, Archbishop Gomez gave his blessing to the FSSP starting a mission with Fr. Fryar in Los Angeles. He also found the wonderful Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen for the traditional latin mass community expelled by Cardinal Mahony, Bishop Curry and new parish priest Tom Elewaut fron San Juan Buenaventira Mission. (We are thriving there, Sung Mass every Sunday at 10 am, do come visit us.)
When one is occupying a sinking ship, might it not be wise to give the citizens life preservers before encouraging more folks to hop aboard the ship? Why not grant citizenship to the 5 million folks already in line who have applied legally? We have their applications, we have their allegiance to the laws of this country… This is a Democratic Republic with three houses: a legislative, an executive, and a judicial. If this President chooses to go it alone, let’s save money and get rid of the judiciary and the legislative. We can use that money to shore up his autocracy.
Deportation does NOT break up families. If the illegal alien parent(s) are deported, usually because of their criminal activities, that does not break up a family. The deportee(s) can take their children back home with them. Those who send their children to school here, get food stamps, free medical care, including obstetrical care and hospitalization, are stealing from the American taxpayers who have to pay for them. These are crimes in themselves. I don’t want to pay for people who broken the law and shouldn’t be here.
Sarah,
Not only is stealing from the taxpayers a crime, it is also a SIN, but most of the “bishops” don’t really believe in SIN as proved by their actions!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
If American bishops spent as much time trying to save our souls as they do trying to save everything else, we would be better off and so would their eternal souls. I really don’t get it. We have all of these guys pouring over our borders and out of a sense of compassion we gladly accommodate them. They made their plight. They came here and took jobs away from hard working Americans. I know that from experience, My family owns a concrete const, company, Our competition was paying Illegals three, four, five dollars an hr. less than the standard wage for these types of jobs because they would work for that amount. If you don’t hire them you can’t compete. I remember back when Dems were trying to get Nixon all we ever heard from them was “nobody is above the law”. Apparently some of us are. Are Mexicans the only ethnic group in the world that are suffering and need our help? I think not. It all boils down to politics. These are votes for the party of death. Some of us are out her doing all we can to try to end abortion, but by enabling illegals we are ensuring that the end of abortion will never happen.
“You are to treat the resident alien the same way you treat the native born among you—love him like yourself, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God!”
Leviticus 19:34
Anonymous, thank you for your post!. We as Americans can be proud to say that “resident aliens” ARE treated the same way as the native born among us. They have been granted the right to live and work in our country. These have obeyed our laws. I’m sure this is what you meant by your post. Of course, Foreign invaders who do not have the right to be here are not included in the Bible verse you posted.
People who purposely break just laws are CRIMINALS.
These are ILLEGAL ALIENS.
LEGAL immigrants are and should be treated with respect.
No, you are dead wrong on this. The hebrew word – something like “gad” is referring to a person who has converted to judaism – not just any foreigner! Also a country has a right to decide how many “foreigners” they are able to take in. Our country accepts ONE MILLION LEGAL immingrants EVERY YEAR!!! We are the most generous people on the planet. Also since now the US has become a welfare state, we cannot afford this (free; educ, medical, food stamps, etc.). DEBT is 17 Trillion!!! Also what about OUR people – 90 million without a job or only have a part-time job. In Mexico an illegal is a FELON. If you are so generous, invite them to YOUR house!
We do love them like ourselves, but we want them to obey our laws and enter our country legally like all of my ancestors did a hundred and twenty years ago. Besides I know the Lord is pleased with those of us that obey laws.
Loving them means wanting them to get to Heaven.
They will not get to Heaven if they Covet their Neighbors’ goods.
They will not get to Heaven if they break just laws.
“The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.”
Psalm 146:9
CCC: ” 2241 The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able,
to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin. Public authorities should see to it that the natural right is respected that places a guest under the protection of those who receive him.
Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions,
especially with regard to the immigrants’ duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude t
he material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them,
to obey its laws
and to assist in carrying civic burdens. ”
ILLEGAL immigrants are not guests, but law-breakers – criminals.
Legal immigrants are guests but should lean to speak, read and write English if they choose to stay here.
We spend billions in our schools, and governments by being forced to have books and documents in more than one language.
My grandparents did not expect either the Catholic Church or anyone else to alter the Country’s language to suit them.
The USCCB had better learn that they are here to save the Souls of Americans first, guests second.
Good to know that the wicked’s ways will be frustrated. That means that those who wage war on the unborn, who continually resort to lies and deceit, who persecute the faithful will be called to account for their autocratic ways.
Archbishop Gomez is a poor excuse, in my opinion, of a bishop of the Church noting the facts of his frequent photo-ops and smiling events with total pro-abortionists/same sex politicians and his constant harping on the plight of basically only Latino illegal aliens and their being uncertain of their status which the illegals themselves have created for themselves. Meeting with Obama, a number one promoter of killing babies and perverted same sex marriage is doing what he always does, making peace with evil.
Ask this question: How did America in WWII with 12million men in the military able to build thousands of planes, ships, tanks etc. and feed the country, with no immigration? No abortion! How did America, in late 1940s through the 50s have one of the greatest boom times in this nation ever, with no immigration? No abortion! Today after 41 years and the slaughter of 56million American babies and a great vacuum created by it, is today filled by mainly uneducated third world people. We have weak leadership in the Church and running the Government but because of our sinfulness and wickedness we deserve them.
Idaho Pete, the answer about how America was able to respond so strongly to World War II was not “no abortion”. Economically and industrially, it was the way out of the Great Depression.
Every mother or father who breaks the law for any reason, (be it for breaking-in-and-entering, for embezzlement, or for murder, etc.) and gets arrested, tried and convicted to jail time has broken up their own family. No reasonable person would suggest that the “laws” they violated “broke up their family”. No sane person would suggest that the laws against breaking-in-and-entering, embezzlement, or murder, etc. are “broken laws”. So too should no one use the same argument that our immigration laws are “broken” or “cause” families to be broken up.
Illegal Immigration devastated the neighborhood I grew up in and still live. It has become gang ridden. Most of our English Masses and devotions have been changed to Spanish language. My married siblings moved their families far away as they could not afford to move to the affluent neighborhoods in Southern California. Yes, Archbishop Gomez, illegal immigration HAS broken up MY family! I did not choose this! Please stop your rhetoric and lies and speak the whole truth. Please instruct your beloved “illegals” to respect our Laws and ALL of God’s 10 Commandments. Please inform them that they owe the citizens of the United States restitution for the harm they have done us on so many levels. Please preach the truth that there are consequences to sin.
It almost seems like some Bishops do not care about Americans.
They don’t teach the Faith accurately and completely either.
Perhaps these should ask for a transfer to a Country where they would be happier.
It is so good to see the CALCatholic readers are savvy and not impressed with the Archbishop’s Democratic Party controlled rhetoric—no matter how he dresses it up in Catholic words.
Families have been broken up for centuries. Look what happened in the South. When most immigrants arrived here, they no longer ever saw their families they left in Europe. My grandparents never went back to Germany, and they never saw their siblings again once they left Eurpoe. But, they came here LEGALLY! The Chinese who worked in California building the Central Pacific Railroad never saw their relatives again in Asia. In the 1920’s, many fathers from Poland and Lithuania came to the Scranton PA area to work in the coal mines. They sent money back, but often never saw their families again. If one really loves his family, he will NEVER put them in jeopardy, but will do all in his power to make sure they are safe and secure. Crossing into the United States with a pregnant wife is NOT a wise decision, but one motivated by greed and selfishness.
Father Karl, several times undocumented people have married American citizens and had children. It is widely believed that if you marry an American you can become a legal resident. However, when the citizen spouse applied for this, they found out the undocumented spouse had to return to their own country and that they would be barred from returning to the US for 10 years.
I notice that when the subject is gay marriage or gay adoption, people here rise up to say that a child deserves and needs his biological parents. Why does the child of undocumented people not deserve the same?
Anonymous, common sense (often lacking in criminals) should tell you that marrying and having a child with a criminal is not a good idea, even if the law has not yet caught up with him/her, one day it may. The consequences such as imprisonment will deprive you of your spouse and your child of at least one his/her parents. Of course, crime always hurts the most innocent.
The Bishop’s obviously know of the strict immigration laws in other countries such as Mexico. Why don’t they bother to fight for the American parent to live with their Mexican spouse and child in Mexico with the rights of a alien resident spoken about in the Bible? Even if their child was born in America and accepted as an American citizen, he/she is also a full fledge Mexican citizen as well. The Bishops obviously value Mexico’s right to protect her boarders. In my mind, their plea to open up the United States to the whole world sans any restrictions shows their complete disdain for her and her citizens.
The US bishops are not supporters of open borders.
Anonymous, of course they are, if the border belongs to the United States of America.
Illegal “immigrants” are LAWBREAKERS!
How would you react if someone broke into your house, used your bathroom, raided your refrigerator, slept in your bed, drove your car and then demanded a subsidy from you for simply being here?That is what illegals do to our society. Their presence is also a slap in the face to all those immigrants who wait patiently on long lists in their home countries for visas and who face the ardous fees and bureaucracies to gain legal admission into this country. All thanks to the crooks in the White House.
I am reminded of a cartoon recently, in which wealthy white people were complaining about “all these immigrants.”
A Native American elder is standing nearby, saying: “Tell me about it!”
Or diners at the fine restaurant eating their broccolini and endives, the pork with berry compote, while sipping fine california wine, complaining about the high cost of dining, not realizing that it would be twice the price if our fields were picked by their own generation’s Americans.
“Or diners at the fine restaurant eating their broccolini and endives, the pork with berry compote, while sipping fine california wine, complaining about the high cost of dining, not realizing that it would be twice the price if our fields were picked by their own generation’s Americans.”
This is an example of the homosexual agenda merging with the race baiting socialism agenda aka “Intersectionality”
https://revolutionarysocialism.tumblr.com/post/58187691338/what-is-intersectionality
What is intersectionality?
Marx knew nothing of intersectionality as it exists today, but he speaks in similar terms in his sixth thesis on Feuerbach: “But the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations.”
New movements against oppression have brought with them a new vocabulary. The concept of “intersectionality” is prominent among them. Shanice McBean from King’s College London SWSS and Central London SWP outlines her understanding of the term and its relationship to Marxist theory.
They may be inexpensive to their employers, but they cost the taxpayers a fortune because we educate their children, pick up the cost of their health care, and any number of other services.
Why are you trying to deceive? The vast majority of whites are NOT against Legal Immigration –
only ILLEGAL Immigration.
Do you understand the difference between lawful immigration, and breaking the law?
Anonymous, in your mind would the message of the cartoon change if it presented poor white people complaining about “all these immigrants.”? And/or if the Native American elder were a member of a tribe with a thriving casino?
Anonymous, how about if it the complainer were a poor black person from intercity New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago invaded by illegal aliens and their illegal occupation of their land and jobs?
Anonymous, the truth is that WEALTY people of any race or color are the ones least impacted by illegal immigration.
It is amazing, I remember trying to warn the readers on this Site of what I had been told by Catholics from the Archdiocese or Diocese (I don’t remember which) that Gomez had already destroyed with his Demoncrat rhetoric, and I remember being vehemently attacked for doing so. Where are these attackers now?
Only the cowardly “Anonymous” dares not to do so!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
The Mexican system is broken and needs to be modernized. That said, Archbishop Gomez has been very good for our Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Even when the archbishop is in town, LMU continues its CINO ways, the REC continues with heretic speakers, etc.
“Very good for” whom?
There is ONE reason why Mexico is so broken. The government is anti Catholic and Masonic. After their revolution in the 1800, by Juarez, a fallen away priest, things continued to go downhill. There is no middle class, just the very wealthy and the very poor. When you see all the natural resources Mexico has, you see there is no excuse for the widespread poverty. Mexico is rich in gold, copper, silver, oil, natural gas and other important minerals, and yet there is widespread poverty. Because of the vast corruption of Mexico, and because of her still anti Catholic laws, it will continue to be a mess.
Thank you Father
As a Catholic and Hispanic is PAINFUL to read a lot of RACIST comment by so called ‘catholics’.
Indeed, RACISM is ALIVE n WELL in the CATHOLIC church.
“As a Catholic and Hispanic is PAINFUL to read a lot of RACIST comment by so called ‘catholics’.” = Intersectionality smokescreen.
Tony de New York NEVER defends or upholds the teachings of the Catholic Church. How painful that must be to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Tony de Nueva York, This has absolutely nothing to do with “Race”. Please wake up! Your pain is due to your believing the deception dished out to us by those power brokers who want to see the ruin of the American Constitution, which is the very foundation of American Culture.
Tony — I encourage you to be very careful when using such a loaded term as “racist.” Please cite a specific instance of racism in any of these comments and I will change my mind. But racism has a specific meaning and to be a racist is to violate Church teachings. So please just be careful.
Tony De New York, do you believe the US as a sovereign nation has the right to control its borders??? if not why…
Tony de New York,
Why can not you debate on a logical level – with the TRUTH.
Merely name calling such as “racist” or whatever does not help your cause. You are behaving like a 4 year old.
Try using the CCC for example: # 2241 – for the TRUTH of Catholic teaching.
Immigrants are OBLIGED to OBEY the LAW, and this does not exclude immigration laws.
Those who break the law are not guests, but criminals.
We are ashamed of Hispanics who advocate breaking the just laws of the USA.
Do you think I feel bad when Hitler is called a monster? Do you think I am offended because Al Capone was a gangster? Do you think I am offended because Lee Harvey Oswald was called a murderer for killing JFK? DO NOT CALL PEOPLE RACIST WHERE THERE IS NO OUNCE OF EVIDENCE!. It is just a liberal and Marxist excuse, because when you just can’t have your way, you start screaming and shouting BIGOTS and RACISTS to those whom you disagree. They are personal attacks. Besides, I THOUGHT all who respond to calcatholic.com. are Catholics and Americans in good standing.
The relief is not permanent and the problems are not fixed? These are the very same sentiments of Catholics who prayed for a new good shepherd after Cardinal Mahony and the cover up of the horrific sex abuse scandals.
Please watch this outrageously scandalous 2014 video of Rev. Tony Ricard’s so called “work shop”. This is the political indoctrination, including the homosexual agenda, being taught to unsuspecting Catholics. Who is guarding the sheep? Cardinal Mahony did not guard the sheep. Catholic mothers whose sons were molested by homosexual priests would like to know why Archbishop Gomez is still allowing priests to distort Church teaching to the youth in his Archdiocese?
2014 LA Religious Ed Congress on Livestream
new.livestream.com/randomhouzeproductions/recongress2014
Livestream
Workshop – Rev. R. Tony Ricard
Topic: If Loving You is Wrong, I Don’t Want to be Right! Exploring God’s Unconditional Love
Mar 13, 2014 – The Religious Education Congress, sponsored by the Archdiocese of L.A.. has speakers who are teaching our youth to ignore God’s natural law and Church teaching.
… Over a four day period, RECongress 2014 will offer 300+ workshops
Scroll down to the 10 th video photo and view the workshop given by Rev. R. Tony Ricard a Catholic priest. The topic of the workshop is … ‘If Loving You is Wrong, I Don’t Want to be Right! Exploring God’s Unconditional Love.’ ….At 43.27 minutes into the video this priest starts to talk about those who won’t let others love the people that they want to love.
If he is so anti-Catholic, don’t you think he would have been shut down by now?
Rev. R. Tony Ricard, MTh, MDiv
Fr. Tony Ricard, a priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, La., currently serves as theology teacher for St. Augustine High School in his native city of New Orleans. He is also an instructor for the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University and Director of Knight Time Ministries. Fr. Tony Ricard, a former pastor and public schoolteacher, has authored many books and has given keynote addresses, retreats, revivals and youth talks across the nation, and has preached in 22 countries.
Bob One writes…”If he is so anti-Catholic, don’t you think he would have been shut down by now ? ” = How long did it take to shut down some of the filth that was taking place in the Archdiocese of LA. The answer is…Too long, with much much more to go!
Google – 2014 LA Religious Ed Congress on Livestream
new.livestream.com/randomhouzeproductions/recongress2014
Scroll down and watch the video of Father Tony Ricard. Father Tony Ricard was selected by ungodly raged feminists to speak at the REC and these are powerful feminists who are responsible for much of the destruction of the Church. A poster once wrote that if women were in charge of the Church then the sex abuse scandals would have never taken place. WRONG! The women who make these kinds of statements are the ones who invited this priest to undermine Church teaching. This is a priest who is promoting the homosexual agenda (and himself) on this video. I don’t care how many books he has written. He is ignoring the Bible and the CCC Second Edition. After the horrific sex abuse scandals, any priest who flamboyantly touts support for homosexual civil unions and gives a talk based around “if loving you is wrong I don’t want to be right” is raising a BIG RED FLAG. Any mother who lets her son travel with anyone who can ignore and distort God’s Laws needs a great big whack on the head for a common sense wake-up call.
“Father Tony Ricard was selected by ungodly raged feminists to speak at the REC and these are powerful feminists who are responsible for much of the destruction of the Church. ”
Cupich eyeing women for top leadership positions
MON, 11/24/2014 – 8:13PM
https://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/cupich-eyeing-women-top-leadership-positions/mon-11242014-813pm
Of course people should be treated with respect and the immigration problem should solved but I look further than that. What just happened now is a trampling of the Constitution. Do the ends justify the means? Many immigrants come here because we are a nation of laws not like many of the countries that they come from. Our Founding Fathers gave up their lives and treasure for this. ARB. Gomez only seems to care about immigration and ignores the travesties that go on in his diocese. He seems at times to make a pact with the devil on so many issues. If you give the executive branch so much power he can change anything and I personally, from listening to him, don’t believe him.
Also I find it very disingenuous and insulting to be called a racist if you disagree with something or someone.
That is what LIBERALS do.
When they cannot win a debate with facts, they attack the other person, or change the subject.
(See link below.)
If is included in their study of Marxist Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” on community organizing. Both Obama and Hilary Clinton studied this.
In fact Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago gave grant money to Obama to study Saul Alinsky community organizing.
Liberals still study Alinsky to this day.
We must know our enemies.
https://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm
Why would a community organizer be your enemy?
Because Saul Alinsky begat Barack H. Obama.
Most community organizers are socialists or communists – which violates Church teaching.
Saul Alinsky was a Marxist/Communist – and the father of official community organizing.
He authored “RULES for RADICALS” which was officially as stated in the book dedicated to Lucifer.
DEDICATION – “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history… the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
” True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process.
The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties…. ”
https://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm
Indeed – Mexico is Broken, and so is much of Central America.
Part of this is the endemic systematic corruption of the Mexican Culture / Law by ‘traditions’ such as La Mordida (the bite) and other forms of corruption that are only prevented from totally destroying the country by Sending those on the bottom run of the social ladder – across the border to work and send money home.
Hence, America is a ‘relief valve’ for cultures that are otherwise ready to completely explode and then implode – and would do so without being propped up by the USA.
However – just the Cocaine & Methamphetamine traffic alone – Driven by Demand from the same USA, have created such strong ‘institutions’ as the Cartels / Gangs who control life there – and on so many streets In America. When the Cartel is stronger & richer than the Government – there is no government help for those Good People who might otherwise resist them.
The Key to stopping ‘desperation immigration’ is to help people lift themselves up in their own land – not exporting them across borders (too often as Mules for said cartels / gangs – to Feed American Demands) – so they are not so desperate as to abandon their homeland, and instead can work safely to make that place a haven for Good & God.
Only immoral laws should NOT be followed. Otherwise, it is a sin. All nations have a right to protect their borders. Pope Benedict, who is higher than Gomez, said that, and he echoes what the Catholic Church has ALWAYS taught. It is NO business of the Church to interfere with these JUST laws. Besides this is SOCIAL work, which has NOTHING to do with SAVING SOULS. And, NO, I am not a racist. I was born in the Philippines, and I came here LEGALLY, with NO help from the government or from the Church. So quit the racist card. That belongs to La Rasa and the Sharpton gang who lie every time they open their mouths.
Archbishop Gomez’s position saddens me. It seems he should be encouraging families to stay together in their country of origin vs. encouraging child abandonment. It seems the Bishops need to challenge Mexico and all those countries that keep people “enslaved.” The President and Congress need to develop a comprehensive Immigration plan before inviting everyone to come and stay.
The Bishops are being short sighted. From an economical standpoint, it is very simple: As the tax burden increases, the laity will have less money to fund the Church’s programs. And, eventually the Church will be taxed and that includes Bishops’ incomes.
Our Bishops need to address the healing of souls, teach
Tony de New York
You are not doing anything to add to the debate to support your cause.
By name calling such as “racist”, you are behaving like a 4 year old who is not able to present a logical argument for his position.
A few Bishops like O”Malley tried that – and he was proved to be dishonest.
Why don’t you use official Catholic teaching such as CCC # 2241 which states immigrants are OBLIGED to OBEY the LAW,
and this does not exclude immigration laws.
Those who break the law are not “guests” but criminals.
Those who break immigration laws are not “received” by the host Country, but force themselves upon it.
We are ashamed of Catholic Hispanics who advocate breaking just US laws or
advocate violating the Faith.
Yes, we need to fix some things in the law, but advocating breaking existing laws is not included.