The Eucharist Is Not a Political Club or a Prop in an Open Borders Farce, by John Zmirak

The latest blasphemous stunt by a Catholic priest to promote open borders ought to outrage anyone with respect for the Eucharist, much less for our country’s sovereignty and laws. Left-wing activist Rev. Larry Dowling organized a formal eucharistic procession, complete with smells and bells, and marched it up to the locked gates of an ICE facility on a Sunday, without notifying anyone in advance. Then he made a little scene in front of the fence, as if wicked Donald Trump were intentionally keeping Jesus away from the migrants, or some such nonsense.

This isn’t the first time a Catholic cleric has tried to use our sacraments to make a blatantly political attack on enforcement of our immigration laws. A few months ago, the Archbishop of Miami led a protest of Knights of Columbus on motorcycles to make an issue of the fact that an ICE facility had not yet set up a Catholic chaplaincy. In response, I suggested that such chaplains ought to be calling illegal aliens to repent their serious sins. It is indeed to sinful to do any of the following:

• Illegally enter a foreign country.

• Illegally work there, undercutting the wages and working conditions of citizens.

• Get paid in cash, avoiding taxes.

• Falsely claim that they are being persecuted so they can seek asylum claims.

• Refuse to appear in court to have those claims adjudicated, just disappearing into the wind.

• Collect government benefits intended for citizens.

• Use false documents, purloined Social Security numbers, and other means of identity theft to evade the law.

• Get free medical care paid for by taxpayers.

• Intentionally bear children in that foreign country, so their little citizens can get free education and medical care, and prevent themselves from being deported. ….

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