Topic: Bishop O’Connell to Congregation: “Jesus Was a Divine Immigrant”

[Pandora]

If I write about this what I'd like to, I'd have to ban myself.

Bishop David O’Connell of Trenton told his congregation on Sunday that Jesus was a “Divine Immigrant.”

(What the h*ll is he talking about?)

NCROnline reported:

    Jesus was the “divine immigrant” who lived his life “traveling from place to place,” Bishop David O’Connell of Trenton told the congregation at a midday “Justice for Immigrants” Mass Oct. 11 at St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral.

    “Sacred Scripture tell us where he was from and what his ancestral lineage was,” the bishop said in his homily. “But nowhere in the Bible do we find his permanent address, the location of his house, where he lived after beginning his public ministry.

    “He lived and worked as an immigrant, an itinerant preacher, on many levels,” the bishop added.

    With comprehensive immigration reform a high priority for many groups across the country, Catholics from throughout the Trenton diocese came together to join O’Connell at the downtown cathedral to pray and show their solidarity on the issue. Some 20 priests of the diocese were concelebrants.

    O’Connell spoke of how important it was for the Catholic church to provide people with an opportunity to pray for positive movement on immigration. The Mass was coordinated by Catholic Charities and the diocesan Office of Catholic Social Services.

 

[Libertas]

Crack don't smoke itself....

And this clown is a Bishop?  He must have gathered a lot of pics over the years to gain that post...certainly wasn't gained through more traditional means...

[IronDioPriest]

So for the sake of argument, we all know that Jesus was a traveling man, for three years before his execution. Nations didn't have protected borders (some cities did), and Caesar's reach was everywhere Jesus ever went. Thus, for those three years, Jesus was more nomadic than an "immigrant".

But even saying that somehow being nomadic and being an immigrant are on par, what creates a comparison between Jesus Christ and illegal immigrants of today? There is no logical line to be drawn.

[Predator Don]

So for the sake of argument, we all know that Jesus was a traveling man, for three years before his execution. Nations didn't have protected borders (some cities did), and Caesar's reach was everywhere Jesus ever went. Thus, for those three years, Jesus was more nomadic than an "immigrant".

But even saying that somehow being nomadic and being an immigrant are on par, how and what creates a comparison between Jesus Christ and illegal immigrants of today? There is no logical line to be drawn.

I believe He had a work visa.

[oldcoastie6468]

Idiocy knows no object.

[Pablo de Fleurs]

Uhm...no. More like the Landlord's Son...come t'see what the tenants were doin' with Dad's vast, expansive estate.

Matthew 21:33-41 | New King James Version (NKJV)

The Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers

33 “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country. 34 Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, that they might receive its fruit. 35And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them. 37 Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.

40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?”

41 They said to Him, “He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.”

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt%2021:%2033-41&version=NKJV

...but if he wants t'go & use the immigrant analogy...

...then we'd best order a boatload of heavy wooden crosses...& a few million cases of nails. 

[Pablo de Fleurs]

We, each & every human being on the planet past-present & future, are the "immigrants" as it were.

[LadyVirginia]

The Mass was coordinated by Catholic Charities and the diocesan Office of Catholic Social Services.

 

that tells me a lot

 

[Libertas]

Sure does.   

[John Florida]

 

[Glock32]

The Catholic Church was thoroughly infiltrated by Marxists, for most of the 20th century. Some of the younger clergy seem to be trying to move back to tradition, and I hope they are successful. The middle age and older ones are garbage for the most part, inculcated in seminaries that were little more than homo bath houses. This isn't me being anti-Catholic either, the Protestant denominations are equally degenerate. Even the denomination of my upbringing (Southern Baptist) which supposedly has this reputation for stalwart conservatism, they've recently been buying into all the anti-gun bullcrap.

I think there's a yearning in this country for a resurgence of real religion. For religion that demonstrates itself to be God-fearing more than Government-fearing.

[oldcoastie6468]

I'm not a Catholic, but my wife is. A pastor she had was from Viet Nam; he had escaped from Viet Nam as a stowaway in a lifeboat on a British steamer. From England to the USA in Tennessee, to a wild and crazy youth, then to the priesthood. He is a 100% dyed in the wool American, and puts up with none of this crap.

He's been transferred to another church, and his replacement has the same values.