It’s not a secret that Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez is no friend of American sovereignty: he has been pushing a mass amnesty for years.
He revealed a globalist, anti-borders theology in his 2013 book Immigration and the Next America, as quoted in La Times:
“Do we really believe that America is one nation under God, made up from every other people?” he writes. “Or is America instead a nation that is essentially white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant, but permits the presence of peoples of other races, colors, and religions?”
It does not appear that America’s founders imagined the nation to be a test tube for diversity. But extreme diversity — including historic enemies like the followers of hostile Islam — is certainly what we have gotten through immigration, although Americans never voted for an influx of unfriendlies, polygamists and jihadists.
Indeed, the American revolution can be seen as an outgrowth of the Protestant reformation, particularly when among the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, only one was catholic. A religious scholar notes, “ ‘There is no King, but King Jesus,’ a rallying cry in the colonies during the American Revolution, had its roots in the Reformation.”
We can be sure that Gomez will use his new office to campaign for a mass amnesty benefiting millions of foreign lawbreakers — he pledged to in an article that appeared on the Los Angeles Times front page on Wednesday.
Interestingly, the Times’ front page visually connected its Gomez article with the DACA case that went before the Supreme Court last week.
Meanwhile, a search for news of Catholic Priest Sex Abuse for the last 30 days gets over a million results, yet the archbishop believes he is qualified to lecture us Americans about the law and fairness of our immigration policies. Perhaps getting his own house in order would be a more appropriate project than shredding American sovereignty.
Of course it’s obvious that the US has millions of loyal citizens who are also catholics, but the Vaticrats have harbored a den of corruption for centuries.
The Times article was reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, posted below:
Archbishop Jose Gomez becomes the first Latino elected to lead U.S. Catholic bishops, Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2019
LOS ANGELES — On the eve of his election as the new leader of U.S. bishops, Archbishop Jose Gomez had a message for the faithful back home: It was well past time for immigration reform.
“In this great country, we should not have our young people living under the threat of deportation, their lives dependent on the outcome of a court case,” the archbishop of Los Angeles said in an email to his flock Monday evening.
Alluding to Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court arguments on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Gomez continued: “We pray tonight that our president and Congress will come together, set aside their differences, and provide our young brothers and sisters with a path to legalization and citizenship.”
Already the highest-ranking Latino in the U.S. Catholic Church, Gomez on Tuesday marked another milestone when he became the first Latino elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Gomez has in recent years evolved into a high-profile and authoritative voice in the American church, advocating for policy reforms that would include a path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally. The soft-spoken 67-year-old will begin his three-year term as president just as his tenure as vice president comes to an end.
His election, which kicked off the second day of the bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore, was regarded by many observers of the Roman Catholic Church as a fait accompli, a historic moment set in motion in 2016 when he was elected vice president of the national conference. Some within the church hope that Gomez will utilize his experience fighting for immigrant rights in his new post, leading the conference to be more outspoken in advocating for immigration reform.
“I am overwhelmed. It is a big responsibility,” Gomez said in a phone interview Tuesday. “I am grateful to the bishops for their support and confidence in me, and I think this is a great lesson for the archdiocese, for Los Angeles and Latinos in the country.”
Gomez’s rise comes amid Latinos’ shifting relationship with the Catholic faith. U.S. Latinos are no longer majority-Catholic, according to a Pew Research Center survey released last month. Some 47% describe themselves as Catholic, the survey showed, down from 57% a decade ago. At the same time, 23% of Latinos say they are religiously unaffiliated, up from 15% in 2009.
Gomez’s ascendance could help shore up or even replenish the number of Latino Catholics.
“This is huge,” Father Thomas J. Reese, a senior analyst at Religion News Service, said of the election. “Having a Mexican American as the president of the bishops conference sends a real message to Hispanics across the country, showing that not only are they part of the church, they are also part of the leadership of the church at the highest level.”
Gomez, a naturalized U.S. citizen, will take up his new position at a time of bitter division over the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Reese added.
“This is a Mexican immigrant who is going to be the leader at a time when immigrants are demonized,” Reese said. “This is a symbolic message from the bishops on the importance of the immigration issue to them, and the importance of immigrants to the Catholic Church and in American society.”
L.A.’s archbishop is at once a conservative and a progressive: staunch in his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage while tenacious in his advocacy for immigrants and the poor.
“He knows we have a very divided church today and one of my hopes with him as the head of the conference is he will find ways to bring us together,” said Father Thomas P. Rausch, a professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University. “He’s conservative, but his impulses are pastoral.”
As the archbishop of the San Antonio archdiocese before coming to L.A., Gomez emerged as a leading advocate for doctrinal conformity, determined to stave off what he saw as creeping secularism in the church.
But in 2013, Gomez published a book that voiced his support for a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country without legal status. His advocacy aligns with efforts by Pope Francis to raise awareness about the challenges immigrants face. (Continues)
