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Title: Catholic Bishop lobbies Congress for amnesty bill, ignores facts and Church’s tax exempt status
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Published: Jul 17, 2010
Author: By Immigration Reform Examiner * Dave Gi
Post Date: 2010-07-17 08:33:49 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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On Wednesday, Bishop Gerald Kicanas speaking on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop, addressed the House Judiciary subcommittee, and made the following statement: “Immigration is ultimately a humanitarian issue since it impacts the basic rights and dignity of millions of persons and their families. As such, it has moral implications, especially how it impacts the basic survival and decency of life experienced by human beings like us. ... Our current immigration system fails to meet the moral test of protecting the basic rights and dignity of the human person.” “Because of a broken system, immigrant families are being separated. Migrant workers are subject to exploitation by unscrupulous employers, and those attempting to find work by coming north are being abused and taken advantage of by human smugglers. it is our view that the best way to secure our southern border is through (comprehensive) immigration reform.” While Kicanas, who is the head of the archdiocese in Tucson, claimed that over the last ten years, thousands of men, women and children have died in the desert trying to cross into this country…he failed to mention the thousands of Americans who have been killed by illegal aliens. Nor did the Bishop mention the thousands of American children who have been molested by many of those “migrant workers.” Of course, the issue of child molestation is a touchy one for the Catholic Church. Though it may be unethical or a violation of the Church’s tax exempt status to use their position to engage in politics, Bishop Kicanas’ lobbying on behalf of illegal aliens is only the latest such effort by the Catholic Church. In January, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on immigration met to discuss how the church can help push forward so-called ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ (i.e. amnesty for illegal aliens). Bishop John C. Wester, chair of the committee, characterized the USCCB’s lobbying efforts as “a full-court press” on immigration reform. Wester told reporters: "We certainly honor the laws of the land and we're grateful for them, but we do believe the system is no longer able to deal with the immigration realities we face today. We have great need for labor and invite immigrants to work, but then call it trespassing. We need temporary workers, but don't have sufficient visas." Though Wester claimed the Catholic Church has respect for our laws, he was quick to justify the actions of those who enter this nation illegally. The bishop said: “’What part of illegal don't you understand?' is a quick sound bite. But if someone is breaking the law, you need to look at why the person's breaking the law.” In October 2006, Bishop William Skylstad, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote an open letter to President Bush asking him to veto the Secure Fence Act which authorized construction of 700 miles of fences and barriers along the U.S./Mexican border. A portion of that letter follows: “To be clear, the U.S. Catholic bishops are supportive of efforts to enforce immigration law and secure our borders, so long as the mechanisms and strategies applied toward this end protect human dignity and protect human life. However, we are opposed to this legislation because we believe it could lead to the deaths of migrants attempting to enter the United States and increased smuggling-related violence along our border. We also believe it would send the wrong signal to our peaceful neighbor to the south, Mexico, as well as the international community. Finally, we do not believe it will solve the problem of illegal immigration faced by our nation. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently found that migrant deaths have doubled since 1995, about the time that the government initiated a series of border enforcement initiatives designed to stem illegal entries at ports-of-entry and other traditional crossing routes. Since that time, close to 3,000 migrants have died in remote portions of the southwest region of the country. In our estimation, the erection of a border fence would force immigrants, desperate to find employment to support their families, to seek alternative and more dangerous ways to enter the country, contributing to an increase in deaths, including among women and children. It also would drive migrants to depend upon unscrupulous smugglers, who would exploit them and, in some cases, place them in dangerous situations which may cause them harm.” The Catholic Church has also helped to organize the massive illegal alien rallies seen in recent years around the nation. The March 2006 rally held in Washington, D.C. was sponsored by among others, the Archdiocese of Washington’s Office of Justice and Service, Catholic Charities of the Arlington Diocese, and the Catholic Social Justice Lobby Network. Baltimore churches St. Michael and St. Patrick even sent a four bus convoy filled with illegal aliens to the Washington rally. A high-ranking official with the Diocese of Arlington, Va. named Father Jose Hoyos played to the crowd when he said: “I want to pray for all the representatives and the senators and the president of the United States, because if they were Christians they would not pass this kind of law.” Churches in this country are considered to be non-profit, charitable organizations and as such are exempt from taxes. However, as a condition of that status, they are prohibited from engaging in political activities (endorsing candidates, lobbying, etc.). If the Catholic Church is going to use the pulpit to lobby for political change, they must be treated as any other lobbyist group attempting to influence our elected representatives. While they claim that the motives behind their quest for amnesty for the millions of mostly Hispanic illegal aliens are strictly humanitarian, the church also has very practical reasons for seeking amnesty…Their own survival. What the leadership of the Catholic Church always fails to acknowledge in their sanctimonious speeches is that because of the Church’s widespread molestation scandal, the U.S. dioceses are dying, and droves of devout Mexican and Central American Catholics are just what the church needs right now to save it. Our state, local, and federal governments must ask the Catholic Church to decide whether it is either a church or a political organization. If it chooses the latter, the taxpayers should not be asked to subsidize their lobbying activities. Catholic Bishop lobbies Congress for amnesty bill, ignores facts and Church’s tax exempt status
CATHOLIC Bishop Gerald Kicanas testifying before House Committee
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Tax every church at the highest corporate tax rate. That will put these bastards on the right track, and fast. The second you start taxing the churches, pretty soon, you'll see a REAL separation of church and state.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
Does the CATHOLIC CHURCH get TAX EXEMPTIONS for being a religious organization? Why are they up to their wigs in INVASION POLITICS?
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
The Pope is the major player and the Catholic Church the major support system for the INVASION of HISPANIC FORCES into Amerika.
"But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.” Josiah Stamp
completely clueless statist statement, baseless claim, and something that the far left commies would say. church's can advocate whatever policy they want, such as immigration, abortion, homo marriage, unions, religious liberties, refusal of vaccines, education of children, parental rights, etc. the list is endless, & for this guy to claim otherwise shows he knows literally nothing of our God given rights or the proper /Constitutional role of government. church's, under their so-called 'tax status', are forbidden from endorsing a specific candidate. i thought this was 3rd grade knowledge, but he obviously went to government ('public') school,
"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 While they claim that the motives behind their quest for amnesty for the millions of mostly Hispanic illegal aliens are strictly humanitarian, the church also has very practical reasons for seeking amnesty…Their own survival. What the leadership of the Catholic Church always fails to acknowledge in their sanctimonious speeches is that because of the Church’s widespread molestation scandal, the U.S. dioceses are dying, and droves of devout Mexican and Central American Catholics are just what the church needs right now to save it. "....Undermining the American Constitution The Vatican, which has historically been no friend of the Bible, has nevertheless inveigled a much more highly regarded status in the United States than perhaps anywhere else in the world today. In the US, Roman Catholics are more prosperous and the so-called evangelicals much more pro-Romanist than in many other countries of the world. Rome has systematically taken advantage of the religious freedom guaranteed by the US Constitution to promote her own doctrines while scheming to undermine those of American Protestantism. The more recent open assault by the Vatican on the freedom of religion guaranteed by the US Constitution is the culmination of a conspiracy launched when overwhelmingly Protestant America elected Roman Catholic John F Kennedy as President. At his funeral we had the cunning exposure of Protestants through television to the paraphernalia of Papist propaganda and the rigmarole of Romanist ritual. The advent of ecumenical evangelism also made the false doctrines of Rome acceptable to millions of misled American fundamentalists. At the end of 1953, before he turned to apostasy, Billy Graham spoke out against Roman Catholicism. The United States was at that time one of the most Protestant nations on earth; now, on the contrary, its leaders support the cause of the Vatican in many areas of the world. Consider for instance the actions of the ecumenical Kennedy-Carter-Clinton clique which supported a united Ireland through the Irish-American lobby, facilitated Sinn Féin/IRA fund-raising, and thus assisted the Vatican in waging its war of aggression against Britain on another front. Such policies, of course, are treacherous to the American Constitution, for those who drew up the Declaration of Independence were not Roman Catholic Irishmen; they were men of deep personal religious conviction, steeped in the Calvinist tradition. The heritage of the Scottish National Church and the Scottish national system of education founded by John Knox was brought to America by the Scotch-Irish, whose role and existence President Clinton belittled and ignored in order to elevate the Republican terrorists whose ancestors did not land in the USA until two centuries later and largely acquired the reputation of undesirables. In 1995, no less than US 53 lawmakers sent a letter to House speaker Newt Gingrich asking him to have the Pope give an address to a joint session of Congress in October of that year. Representative John Boehner, the sponsor of the letter, said that such an invitation was "highly appropriate for the Vatican head of state and spiritual leader of 900 million [Roman] Catholics world-wide and 60 million American [Roman] Catholics. Both numbers were, as usual, grossly exaggerated. Resistance to the Vatican's subversion of Protestantism in America was profoundly symbolised in 1997 when an Alabama Judge refused to remove a plaque inscribed with the Ten Commandments displayed in his courtroom. By the same token, the need for such resistance underlines the huge strides which Romanism has made in America in the last decade. When the Pope visits the US this year, Americans should remember that he has been dubbed "the last great critic of capitalism", one of the systems which his predecessor said would have to be "deprecated" before Rome could achieve her aims. Americans must remember, too, that the Roman hierarchy has formally announced its intention to destroy their country, where she is entrenching herself with strength and promoting herself with subtlety. In L'Aurora of December, 1950, 'Father' Patrick O'Brien announced: "We, the Hierarchy of the Holy Catholic Church, [...] if necessary, shall change, amend, or blot out the present Constitution so that the President may enforce his, or rather our, humanitarian programme and all phases of human rights [!] as laid down by our saintly Popes and the Holy Mother Church. [...] We are going to have our laws made and enforced according to the Holy See and the Popes and the canon law of the Papal throne. Our entire social structure must be rebuilt on that basis. Our educational laws must be constructed to end the atheism, the Red peril of totalitarianism, Protestantism, Communism, Socialism and all other of like ilk and stamp, be driven from this fair land. [...] We control America and we do not propose to stop until America or Americans are genuinely Roman Catholic and remain so." The Union and Echo, the official diocesan organ of the Roman Catholic Church in Buffalo, declared in December 1950 that at the rate of 126,000 converts a year in the United States it would take too long to "convert" (i.e. Romanise) America: "We must convert [...] Politics, Economics, Sociology, Business, Entertainment, Labour and Management, the Department of State and the Executive Branch of our Government to Christian and hence Catholic principles." ....." http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=euro2 ================== BTW: "Mrs. Van Hyning, I am surprised at your surprise. You are a student of history -- and you know that both the Borgias and the Mediciis are Jewish families of Italy. Surely you know that there have been Popes from both of these house. Perhaps it will surprise you to know that we have had 20 Jewish Popes, and when you have sufficient time, which may coincide with my free time, I can show you these names and dates. You will learn from these that: The crimes committed in the name of the Catholic Church were under Jewish Popes. The leaders of the inquisition was one, de TorQuemada, a Jew." (Woman's Voice, November 25, 1953) ============================ MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT. CATHOLIC OR JEWISH? ...... ======================== The enduring legacy of the First Landing Psalm 2:6/Micah 4:1-2. There are a lot of good people in the Catholic Church, as well as among the Hispanic immigrants. However, this is just one more example of the ongoing battle against the gospel that was delivered to the apostles, and planted on these shores after God's people had gone through many trials by fire from Old Jerusalem to Europe to the Promised Land [Micah 4/Ezekiel 34/John 10], America.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
As far as the "tax exempt" status goes, it would be interesting to know if the Catholic Church is 501(c) 3. 501c3 churches are married to the State, and come under the jurisdiction of, and must obey, the dictates of the State. Non-501c3 churches are under the jurisdiction of God, according to IRS statutes, and do not have to answer to the State for its doctrine, but this is fought tooth and nail by the ADL, who of course are pursuing the course of putting us all under the jurisdiction of the Jewish god, Lucifer.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
#2. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
#3. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
#4. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Though it may be unethical or a violation of the Church's tax-exempt status to use their position to engage in politics,
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#5. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
http://watch.pair.com/mystery-babylon.html
In ...1607 ..... Rev. Hunt .... planted the first Protestant church in America, and laid down his life in the foundation of Virginia ... www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55421 [which extended a lot further up the coast than it does today]
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