As an example of why the subject of immigration reform is such a difficult subject to have a clear cut opinion about, let’s look at two extremes. On one side, you have the anti-immigration forces that are trying to shut up Catholic bishops by bringing up the Scandal.
Such priestly precepts are part of a growing campaign by churches, especially the Catholic Church, to promote the acceptance of illegal aliens. But such campaigns will only exacerbate the alienation that already exists between many Americans and the Catholic Church.
Despite the cardinal’s overreaction, the target of the House bill is not humanitarian priests, but smugglers and others who aid and abet illegal aliens for monetary or other gain. But if a priest knowingly aids and abets aliens who violate the law, why should he (or she) not be charged? After all, the priest sexual abuse cases have shown that it is rather naïve to assume that priests are immune from ungodly sins.
Okay, I agree that the bill doesn’t target those who seek to give normal humanitarian aid to the needy, but the writer Ian de Silva’s ham-handed use of the sex-abuse scandal to try to shut up Catholics is clumsy and insulting to the rest of the Catholic Church, apart from the covering-up bishops and pervert priests. He even claims that the Church’s holding up marriage as an indissoluble sacramental bond is hypocritical: “The Catholic Church’s defiant support for illegal aliens is particularly hypocritical when you consider that this is the same church that refuses to marry American citizens if they have been previously divorced, yet it somehow thinks it has a duty to aid and abet people who have no right to be in the country in the first place.” That doesn’t even make sense.
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It won’t be the last time “the scandal” will be used against the Church.
And we have it coming to us, quite frankly.
>>But if a priest knowingly aids and abets aliens who violate the law, why should he (or she) not be charged? After all, the priest sexual abuse cases have shown that it is rather naïve to assume that priests are immune from ungodly sins.<<
Is violating immigration law an ungodly sin?
I agree with DeCoder..
thanks to our bishops, who failed to act over decades to clean house of the perverts in the priesthood, the Church will be hit again and again when it stands up for issues.
It will take decades to the Church to rid itself of this stigma, and the recovery begins with the laity standing up and living the ‘Gospel of Life’ in face of all the secular and popular trends in the world.
Heh, the Human Events writer even brought up “patriarchal.” Something for the Anti-Catholic cliche bingo card.
Weren’t you banned from posting? Yes, you were. That must have slipped when I switched web hosts. I’ll fix that now.