Nat'l Catholic Reporter: Silence equals complicity in US border crisis

[pnwmom]

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/editorial-silence-equals-complicity-us-border-crisis

Set aside for this moment the long, systemic ills in Central America — and the United States' well-documented role in creating those problems — that fuel the migration. For years, they've been amply documented in these pages. This administration has neither the tolerance nor the attention span to consider even that recent history.

Further, such considerations wouldn't fit the simplistic dualisms of senior adviser and "border hawk" Stephen Miller, one of the few to have survived a series of White House purges and who has Trump's ear on immigration issues.

What we're experiencing today is administration-generated chaos.

The wall. A government shutdown over funding of the wall. Separated families. Children in cages. A presidentially declared national emergency. An emergency so dire we'll shut down the border. Oops, commerce complains. We'll hold the border closing until after the election. Refugees have to remain in Mexico. Except a federal court overturns that policy. Maybe we'll begin separating families again.

SNIP

Where is the episcopal outrage over separated families and caged children? Where is the insistent teaching from the pulpits about the evident life issues involved? Where is the invocation of the strong and consistent language of Pope Francis regarding immigrants? Where are the Fortnight for Freedom advocates? Where are the episcopal letters to parishes, the bulletin inserts and the bus caravans to Washington or to the border?

SNIP

Silence, bishops and fellow Catholics, gives consent.

[Arazi]

1. +1 million

[nuxvomica]

2. I submitted my first LTTE in 10 years on this issue

It was printed this morning in the local paper and got 4 likes on their site, which is a lot for an LTTE. Of all the issues swirling around us, this is the one that bothers me the most and I think it gets past people's political filters. Separating kids from families and putting them in cages -- how can anyone stomach that?

[pnwmom]

4. Good for you!

[guillaumeb]

3. Silence helps the oppressor, never the oppressed.

Elie Wiesel.

[customerserviceguy]

5. It's fun

to be lectured on silence by a Catholic newspaper.

I'm glad I got out of that BS about thirty five years ago.

[pnwmom]

6. The paper is lecturing bishops and fellow Catholics, so you can safely ignore this. nt

[Scurrilous]

7. Thanks!

K&R

[DallasNE]

8. Follow The Money And You Will Have Your Answer

Nothing in scripture prepares you for the intoxication of money corruption.

[PatrickforO]

9. Great editorial.

Thank you for posting. Like all institutions, the Catholic Church has both evil and good. This is good. Speaking out is good. Lighting fires under the rear ends of parish leaders and congregations is really good.

I don't know if it was you who posted it or not, but there was an article I read by a lady who was formerly an evangelical right wing person, but she began questioning hypocrisy - like being against abortion and calling that 'pro-life' while at the same time trying to get rid of the national healthcare plan. It may be that people of faith will begin awakening.

[zentrum]

10. Where were they when

...the Jews were being taken away for camps?

Didn't history reveal that the Vatican colluded with the Nazis?

This level of hypocrisy is not new.

[pnwmom]

11. The National Catholic Reporter began reporting after Vatican II, decades after Nazi Germany. nt

[Fred Sandman]

12. Thing is the corporate media will give full coverage to the anti-Jesus faction over the

more supportive Christians. Hypocrisy is missing in one of them and the corporate media seeks hypocrisy as friction to fuel profits.