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Entry: Love Among the Bones Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/love_among_the_bones#24092 Post contents: John: The Pope said the following: <i>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. This, indeed, is what your fellow countrymen have done for generations. From the beginning, they have opened their doors to the tired, the poor, the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” (cf. Sonnet inscribed on the Statue of Liberty). These are the people whom America has made her own.</i> If I take this at face value, the verb "welcome" seems to be the operative term, followed, of course, by "share", "support", "help", and so forth. Perhaps you can help me with this, but I don't see the nuances. I also don't understand how immigration, legal or otherwise, has <i>any</i> impact on the pro-life movement. Surely this is a matter for organizing. There is significant freindliness toward that cause amongst (let's call a spade a spade - this is really who we're talking about - isn't it?) the Hispanics that I've encountered. So far as being a wedge issue that divides Catholics from "other cultural conservatives" - are you referring to <a href="http://www.takimag.com/site/article/is_there_conservatism_beyond_christianity_or_how_to_book_a_mental_vacation/">these folks</a>? Sent at: 2008 07 04