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Good Job to Cardinal Mahony and the Catholic Church for Standing up to the Feds
I've been very hard on the Catholic Church over the past 5 years. You know, that whole raping little boys thing kinda made me a little upset.
But Cardinal Mahony gets major props for standing up to the government and refusing to obey a law which requires people in need to present documentation when they need help from the Church. The Mayor supports him.
That's what Churches and Christianity is supposed to be all about. Helping people in need. Not penalizing disenfranchised people who are down and out.
I work among most of these men and women every day and they are out there working so hard to make a better living for their families doing work most of us wouldn't do ourselves.
Well done Catholic Church.
But Cardinal Mahony gets major props for standing up to the government and refusing to obey a law which requires people in need to present documentation when they need help from the Church. The Mayor supports him.
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Archdiocese will ignore a proposed federal law that would require churches to ask immigrants for residency documents before administering help, Cardinal Roger Mahony said Wednesday.
"The church is not in a position of negotiating the spiritual and the corporal works of mercy," Mahony said during a Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels marking the start of the 40-day season of Lent.
"We must be able to minister to people, regardless of how they got here," he said.
An immigration bill recently passed by the House of Representatives includes a provision requiring churches and other social organizations to ask immigrants for legal documentation before providing them assistance. Institutions that fail to comply could be penalized.
"The church is not in a position of negotiating the spiritual and the corporal works of mercy," Mahony said during a Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels marking the start of the 40-day season of Lent.
"We must be able to minister to people, regardless of how they got here," he said.
An immigration bill recently passed by the House of Representatives includes a provision requiring churches and other social organizations to ask immigrants for legal documentation before providing them assistance. Institutions that fail to comply could be penalized.
I work among most of these men and women every day and they are out there working so hard to make a better living for their families doing work most of us wouldn't do ourselves.
Well done Catholic Church.
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