Conversely, the law allows you to do a lot of very immoral things. You can stand by and watch someone drown, and the law doesn’t compel you to stoop over and drop them a rope, and maybe save their life.
Except this isn’t a time where unemployment is at its lowest. Americans need work, but they cannot because many illegals have taken their job.
They were all for government forced health care until the contraception issue came up.
Yes. The USCCB openly supports illegal immigration, an arbitrary, confiscatory tax system, gun control and a host of other left-wing causes.
First of all, the bishops have a duty to make pastoral statements; that you personally may adhere to political leanings is no reason to think that the bishops, your spiritual leaders, are making political statements when their pastoral messages conflict with your particular politics. The bishops don’t call for the things you accuse them of. Instead, they present the Christian perspective to our society on pressing issues and leave it to whomever listens to heed their wise counsel. You should give it a try sometime.
Tell that to the jewish who fled german hands during world war 2. Have you seen the state of mexico as well as other south american countries? The cartels are out of control and killing people/raping people/beating people/forcing people to run drugs and guns for them. Many people are feeling this kind of life. Not all are directly targeted or victimized because of this. But because of those reasons, many people are trying to leave and make a better life for themselves and their family. They have every right to come to this country. Amnesty is the christian response to all those seeking a better life. It was welcome when all the white europeans like myself were coming here to settle and make a new life (well except for we Irish I suppose, we had it rough but what else is new). I know full well what civil laws say but we should approach every civil law with an examination of conscience and apply morality to every aspect of our life. I doubt very much Christ would turn these people away.
I hope you’re joking. Remember that God’s law comes before man’s law. People have a right to survive. That’s merely what they are doing. That’s like expecting an employee to never have a moment of slack during their work hours. Not everyone works exactly the same. We are all unique. If that person slacked noticabely, and you chose to report them, you might be guilty of hurting their family, children and wife. They may be under a tremendous amount of stress and that is really why the coworker is having difficulty focusing at work. I believe it would be sinful to “report” the individual. But you would have to speak to your priest about that. As far as “illegal immigrant” is concerned, some of them are not here because they chose to be. Their parents may have drug them here for good reasons. My wife teaches many that are from such conditions. Unless they are committing a real crime, then you have no business “reporting” them in my opinion. But that is your choice. Choose a side.
The OP is asking whether he is under pain of mortal sin to inform on a hypothetical friend, and I’m suggesting he inform his conscience, and that part of informing it is knowing which laws are moral or not, and you think that’s a problem?
In the pagan Roman Empire it was a crime to be a Christian. Did neighbors have a moral obligation to report Christians?
The “illegals” are people, and usually they are poor and desperate people who do the **** jobs that citizens will not do, for wages that citizens will not accept, so that citizens can buy their produce, or manufactured goods, or get their house cleaned or whatever more cheaply.
Ah, good. Then you agree that laws aren’t the highest arbiter of right and wrong, and that there are occasions when it is moral to break a law and immoral to follow it. Now we are discussing something else: the circumstances and degree to which a law is to be followed or not. If the law itself is not the determinant of right and wrong, then what is? Well, for Christians, it is the Christian faith, as rooted in the Gospel message of Jesus Christ and the teaching authority of His Church. I can’t find it, so please help me find the chapter and verse where it says “Blessed are ye when ye bully and cajole the stranger in your midst, and protect your meager share of bread from those leaner and hungrier than you.”
No, they are people that know they can earn a lot more money by violating the laws of a sovereign nation, and have no moral problem with doing so. This “poor and desperate” argument is a left-wing fallacy.
Wrong again. Citizens are consistently underbid by illegals who artificially lower the wage scale.
First of all the Nazi’s were invading nations and hunting down and killing Jews. Comparing illegal immigration to Shoah is the most shameful and ignorant thing someone could say.
No I have a problem with people saying the law is not moral. They are trying to change the subject. The OP was asking whether it was a sin NOT to report, not whether we agree with the immigration law or not. It is not a sin, in case you were wondering.The OP is asking whether he is under pain of mortal sin to inform on a hypothetical friend, and I’m suggesting he inform his conscience, and that part of informing it is knowing which laws are moral or not, and you think that’s a problem?
Actually, undocumented immigrants often command a higher wage than U.S. citizens do, because they are so productive, and they get paid their worth.
No I don’t agree, I find your shameful attempt to compare a nation securing its borders peacefully to deliberate acts of murder and enslavement, revolting.
And maybe for the last time, you will discover that Catholics do not listen to the law for what is a sin or not. This makes politicians and ideologues unhappy, and even shout and grimace in pain, but it’s a fact. We listen to our faith for what is moral and immoral, right and wrong.