Mahoney's Pitch to the Media
All immigrants are equal

By now, most of the free world, and then some, has heard about Los Angeles Bishop Mahoney’s “homily” on Ash Wednesday about opening our arms to all aliens, legal and illegal. He reminded those in attendance that the Church has always welcomed the immigrants to this country.

There’s no telling how many at the Taj Mahoney on Wednesday were non-Catholics as reporters and film crews from all the major newspapers and networks seem to have been invited and allowed to set up their cameras somewhere up front so they could get good film coverage of Roger while he walked around the “sanctuary” like some Las Vegas performer doing a floor show. No doubt, the term “bully pulpit” will lose its historic meaning if the novelties of the Novus Ordo continue much longer.

The one thing Mahoney failed to distinguish, however, is the previous waves of immigration were people coming to this country legally, who entered proudly, however humbly, with a desire to become Americans. Even now, people wait at American embassies and consulates every day for their chance to get on a waiting list to obtain a chance to legally come to this country.

Sorry, Bishop, there is a big difference between legal, regulated immigration and the huge flood of illegal aliens (yeah, call ‘em what they are – not undocumented immigrants and other politically correct names) pouring into this country, overwhelming our emergency rooms and other health systems, crowding our schools, committing more crimes and flooding our jails and courts, and bringing along their Third World diseases that were previously eradicated in this country.

I’m all for the corporal work of mercy: “shelter the homeless, or harbor the harborless,” but a person has a right to protect their home and a sovereign nation has a right to protect its borders (the fact that our President nor neither political party has the balls to effectively do it is another story), so don’t be telling us that we, as Catholics, should be welcoming a bunch of criminals to hurry the end of the American culture. When Jesus forgave the good thief, he didn’t say, “Oh, and by the way, it was really okay to rob all those people.”

And another thing, what’s with the comb-over? They look bad on any man, but – vanity of vanities – on a Catholic bishop? (Hey Bishop, do you remember the tonsure, the badge of slavery among the Greeks and Romans that was adopted by the monks for that very reason? You might try it as a Lenten sacrifice.)

And while we’re speaking about our Catholic brethren from south of the border, one other question, Bishop Mahoney: How many good and loyal Mexican priests could have built a parish school, helped the poor, or painted their small village church with the multi-millions you spent on that Protestant museum you built in downtown Los Angeles in honor of your ego?