The Catholic Standard: As undocumented immigrants face policy unleashing ‘fear and terror,’ Catholics should stand in solidarity with them, Cardinal McElroy says
Decrying the federal government’s policy of mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, which he described as a “governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women,” Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy at a Sept. 28 Mass said Jesus’s Parable of the Good Samaritan should guide Catholics’ response in standing in solidarity with those immigrants, regarding them as neighbors just as the Samaritan did to the robbery victim needing help. … click here to read the full article
Mass for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees Homily Given by Robert Cardinal McElroy
For the past one hundred ten years, Mass has been celebrated throughout our country to honor and support immigrants and refugees who have come to our nation as part of that stream of men and women from every land who have built up the United States into a great nation. But this year is different from the one hundred ten years that have preceded it. For this year we are confronting – both as a nation and as a Church – an unprecedented assault upon millions of immigrant men and women and families in our midst. … click here to read the full Homily