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Statement from Bishop Gerald Barnes on the Court Ruling Regarding Arizona' Immigration Law

Hermanos y Hermanas en Cristo,

pdfEl Tribunal Federal dictaminó hoy sobre la ley del estado de Arizona que pretendía abordar la cuestión de la inmigración entre México y Estados Unidos. Debido a los desafíos legales a esta ley y a la preocupación de muchos, incluyendo nuestra Iglesia, algunas disposiciones clave que permitirían a la policía investigar sobre el estado de inmigración de los residentes de Arizona no entrarán en vigor por el momento.

El Proyecto de Ley del Senado 1070 ha desencadenado fuertes sentimientos y diferentes puntos de vista.  Nos ha llevado a una batalla de ideologías cuando nos deberíamos enfocar en cómo reparar un sistema de inmigración que ambas partes reconocen que no funciona.

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Solidarity


Solidarity PDF Print E-mail
ethiopian_woman_baby-1We are our brothers and sisters keepers, whether they are next door or around the world. In today’s world of instantaneous communication, 24-hour news cycles and world economic dependency, this simple axiom is truer than ever.

Solidarity is often defined as “friendship” or “social charity.”  It is the notion that we must help each other, both in the material sense and in the spiritual sense.  It is not just feeling sympathy for the poor in our communities or the world explained Pope John Paul II  in his encyclical On Social Concern (Sollicitudo rei socialis), “it is the firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good”

This notion of the “common good” frequently appears Catholic social teaching.  It is defined in Gaudium et Spes (The Church in the Modern World) by Pope Paul VI as “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.”
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