Those White Christians are something else. A few years back, I was talking to one of them, and he asked me if I was a Christian or a Catholic. I squinted my eyes, trying to figure out if the person was being serious or joking. The guy was serious about the question.
I asked him why are Catholics not Christians. Answer: because Catholics worship idols and pray to them, like the Virgin and the Saints.
I responded by asking him what religions were his parents. He replied that they were Catholic. So I asked him why did he violate one of the ten commandments.
He told me that he didn’t violate any of the commandments, and I told him yes, he did. You failed to honor your father and mother, who raised you to be a Catholic. He didn’t even know the Ten Commandments.
Moral: there is no reasoning with people who think they are doing God’s work. All I can say is what a weak god they worship, that it relies on humans to do its bidding.
Catholic Church will not be intimidated by Ken Paxton’s threats to Annunciation House, Bishop Seitz says.
For more than 45 years, Annunciation House has been an effective, compassionate local response to a complex and broken immigration system. Rooted in the Gospel, and born of an encounter between Ruben Garcia and Mother Teresa of Kolkata, it has led our community effort to meet the challenge of migration in recent years. Its work is nourished by long-standing partnerships with the Catholic Church in El Paso, our local government, and our federal law enforcement partners, including U.S. Border Patrol.
Its work is an example of our Catholic commitment to the poor, the Christian call to love one’s neighbor, and stepping into the breach to take action where many will not. Our church, our city and our country owe Annunciation House a deep debt of gratitude.
This is not about politics. I know the guests at Annunciation House, those trapped on the other side of the border, and those who have died trying to cross it. I have encountered them and have experienced their pain, suffering and hope. This is about their lives and our shared human dignity. Source
