Tancredo to pope: Stop promoting amnesty (with video)

[EveningStar]

World Net Daily
April 18, 2008

Rep. Tom Tancredo – who vied for the Republican presidential nomination to make illegal immigration a priority issue – suggested in a House speech yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI is encouraging Latin Americans to come to the U.S. to bolster flagging membership in the Catholic Church...
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[BarkleUSA]

Tancredo also took exception to the pope telling U.S. bishops Wednesday in Washington, "I want to encourage you and your communities to continue to welcome the immigrants who join your ranks today, to share their joys and hopes, to support them in their sorrows and trials and to help them flourish in their new home."

I would like to propose a bill whereby the United States shall deport illegal aliens to Vatican City where they will be welcomed and the Pope can share in their hopes and joys (and medical bills, education, food, clothing, criminal justice, etc.)

With all due respect to the Pope he needs to stay out of our business.

[DeclinetoState]

There are a couple of places where the pope could have added either the word legal or the word legally, and we would all agree with it 100%.

[Oldeshooter]

The pope is simply a robed politician. He's abetting pedophiles, most of whom had their start in the archdiocese of Boston under cardinal cushing and cardinal bernie law. Law is now hiding in the vatican because if he returns to Boston he will be arrested. The catholic church"s largest money factory is the U. S. and the pope doesn't care if the money comes from illegals or criminals.

[Maggie_T]

Good for Tancredo! :claps:

Yes, you all know I'm a Catholic, and proud of my faith. But I DO NOT agree with the Pope on this.

And if that's a sin, I'm sorry, Lord. Just chalk up another one on my already long list of boo-boos.

[BarkleUSA]

...another thing about the Pope - yea, I can sortof understand his anti-war position but if good men stood by and did nothing when faced with evil the Pope might well have ended up in one of Hitler's easy-bake ovens for escaping the Third Reich. And the Vatican complex today would be a Eugenics Experimentation Center engineering the Master Race instead of a huge coat closet for his gold leafed robes.

The Pope is naive to think that wishing and hoping that thug tyrants will stop killing innocent people does any good at all - while chastising the US Military which brings about more Christian good then any force on earth.

[Beowulf]

I can see that the faith I accepted as a teenager is separating itself from me. I cannot and will not abide by this ideal or ruling by the Pope. If that means my removal from the church, so be it. I can still maintain my faith without sitting in a pew once-a-week.

[CzechPrince]

He's not ruling on matters of doctrine, he's merely stating his personal moral opinion. It's not like you can't disagree with it.