Cardinal Dolan\u2019s blog<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nA week or so ago, I watched with shame as an angry mob in southern California surrounded buses filled with frightened, hungry, homeless immigrants, shaking fists, and shouting for them to \u201cget out!\u201d<\/p>\n
It was un-American; it was un-biblical; it was inhumane. \u00a0It worked, as the scared drivers turned the buses around and sought sanctuary elsewhere.<\/p>\n
The incendiary scene reminded me of Nativist mobs in the 1840\u2019s, Know-Nothing gangs in the 1850\u2019s, and KKK \u00a0thugs in the 1920\u2019s, who hounded and harassed scared immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and Blacks.<\/p>\n
I think of this sad incident today, the feast of New York\u2019s own Kateri Tekakwitha, a native-American (a Mohawk) canonized a saint just three years ago. \u00a0Unless we are Native Americans, like Saint Kateri, our ancestors all came here as homesick, hungry, hopeful immigrants. \u00a0I don\u2019t think there were any Mohawks among that mob attacking the buses of refugee women and children.<\/p>\n
Then on Saturday I watched another scene on the TV news. \u00a0Again there were busloads of shy, scared, immigrant women and children; again, there were crowds; this time \u2013 \u2013 in McAndrews, Texas \u2013 \u2013 the crowd was applauding the arriving refugees, and helping them into Sacred Heart Parish Hall, where parishioners and Catholic Charities workers welcomed them with a meal, a cold drink, a shower and fresh clothes, toys for the kids, and a cot as they helped government officials try to process them and figure out the next step.<\/p>\n
This time I was not ashamed, but relieved and grateful, proud to be an American and a Catholic.<\/p>\n
We might argue and yell about policies, processes, and politics; we can never argue about the dignity of the human person or the sacredness of life, or yell at people who need our help.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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