Archbishop Dolan on Immigration Reform

[Ender]

Amazing that you feel personally attacked! I believe the Archibishop was addressing past history. I don’t recall him mentioned you specifically did he?

Archbishop Dolan raised the specter of past evils and applied them directly to those who support the Arizona law. The fact that I am one of those who supports that law means that his insults were aimed at me; the fact that I am not specifically named is (I’m sure you know) irrelevant.

I don’t feel “judged” by our leaders , however if you do, maybe you have some things to look at.

This little dig feeds off the tone Abp. Dolan set in his diatribe. Nor do I feel judged, merely insulted.

I appreciate his addressing the problem head-on unlike those who sit in our congress and exchange meaily-mouthed platitudes endlessly while nothing is being changed and there is no end in sight to this problem.

Insult is not argument. There is nothing in his comments that even recognized the issue, let alone addressed it.

Why cling to anger over a wrong you feel has been done to you, personally. Why not use this as an opportunity to help make some needed changes? Unless you just want everything to stay the way it’s always been, better think of something new to try instead.

Something new is being tried and I fully support it, and will continue to do so. Abp. Dolan’s comments are astonishingly intemperate … but irrelevant.

Jesus wants us to love one another. Plain and simple. I hardly think there is any apology or reparation needed for reminding us Catholics of what Jesus taught.

Jesus taught us to love our neighbor. He did not leave us details about how best to work that out. It is misguided to believe that because we disagree over the details we love our neighbors less. That was Dolan’s assumption and it is false and demeaning; we have a right to expect better from our bishops.

Ender

 

[timotheos]

Yes, every society has the duty to protect its borders and thoughtfully monitor its population. The call is to do this justly, sanely, and civilly.

Is this the part where he actually understands and recognizes the rule of law? Is this the part where he indirectly points out the negligence of the federal government? Is this the part where he actually recognizes Arizona’s duty to begin to impose some order on the situation, limiting its inquiry and actions only to those found first to be in engaged in unlawful criminal activity?

Only one sentence that has any relevance to the real issue, and it is buried at the end. And we are left to guess about its meaning.

 

[Tigg]

Is this the part where he actually understands and recognizes the rule of law? Is this the part where he indirectly points out the negligence of the federal government? Is this the part where he actually recognizes Arizona’s duty to begin to impose some order on the situation, limiting its inquiry and actions only to those found first to be in engaged in unlawful criminal activity?

Is this the part where he is concerned with the common good, or even with low income families having to compete for increasingly limited resources? Is this the part where he is concerned with the continuing assault against American workers, who too, need to feed their families? Is this the part where he is concerned that the census numbers are unfairly tweaking house and senate districts and the very representation government is to give to us? Is this the part where he is concerned that fraudulent industries continue to reap huge profits from the sale of drivers licenses and other fake documents?

 

[Tigg]

Archbishop Dolan raised the specter of past evils and applied them directly to those who support the Arizona law. The fact that I am one of those who supports that law means that his insults were aimed at me; the fact that I am not specifically named is (I’m sure you know) irrelevant.
This little dig feeds off the tone Abp. Dolan set in his diatribe. Nor do I feel judged, merely insulted.
Insult is not argument. There is nothing in his comments that even recognized the issue, let alone addressed it.

Something new is being tried and I fully support it, and will continue to do so. Abp. Dolan’s comments are astonishingly intemperate … but irrelevant.

Jesus taught us to love our neighbor. He did not leave us details about how best to work that out. It is misguided to believe that because we disagree over the details we love our neighbors less. That was Dolan’s assumption and it is false and demeaning; we have a right to expect better from our bishops.

Ender

Ender, I salute you!!!

You have consistently, concisely, and intelligently made our case! Thank you!