A Practicing Catholic Considers Why "The Church" Is Wrong About Immigration

By Chilton William... on April 22, 2008

[See also by Chilton Williamson: A Christmas Meditation: St. Augustine on the National Question]

Pope Benedict XVI is back in Rome after his first papal visit to the United States. Before leaving, he had a private meeting with his American bishops in which—according to Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles who was there—he expressed the thought that "newcomers" to the U.S. are "people of faith and we [Americans] are here to welcome them." [Pope Speaks Up For Immigrants, Touching A Nerve, By Daniel J. Wakin And Julia Preston, New York Times, April 20, 2008]