Dolan: Anti-immigrant protests "un-American," "un-biblical," "inhumane"

[UrbScotty]

The incendiary scene reminded me of Nativist mobs in the 1840’s, Know-Nothing gangs in the 1850’s, and KKK thugs in the 1920’s, who hounded and harassed scared immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and Blacks.

I think of this sad incident today, the feast of New York’s own Kateri Tekakwitha, a native-American (a Mohawk) canonized a saint just three years ago. Unless we are Native Americans, like Saint Kateri, our ancestors all came here as homesick, hungry, hopeful immigrants. I don’t think there were any Mohawks among that mob attacking the buses of refugee women and children.

Then on Saturday I watched another scene on the TV news. Again there were busloads of shy, scared, immigrant women and children; again, there were crowds; this time – – in McAndrews, Texas – – the crowd was applauding the arriving refugees, and helping them into Sacred Heart Parish Hall, where parishioners and Catholic Charities workers welcomed them with a meal, a cold drink, a shower and fresh clothes, toys for the kids, and a cot as they helped government officials try to process them and figure out the next step.

This time I was not ashamed, but relieved and grateful, proud to be an American and a Catholic.

http://cardinaldolan.org/index.php/the-dignity-of-the-human-person/

Credit where it's due.

[okasha]

1. Absolutely.

He got this one right. Good for him.

[meow2u3]

2. Cardinal Dolan is absolutely right on the immigration issue

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