An Old Peace Plan for the Holy Land, by Charles A. Coulombe
April 4, 2025
By Fr. Donald Kloster, LifeSiteNews, Apr 3, 2025
Just laws on legal immigration may never be broken from a moral perspective. No one has a right to violate the boundaries established by a foreign sovereign nation.
(LifeSiteNews) — There has been huge pushback after the few times I have addressed the important topic of immigration from the pulpit. I recall giving a sermon on illegal immigration in early 2019 at a parish in the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut. After one of the Masses, a Novus Ordo in Spanish, a woman screamed at me in the vestibule as I was seeing off parishioners. Her insults were flying in Spanish and I was providentially keeping my composure.
This exchange led the pastor at the time to ask me not to give any more sermons for a “few weeks.” To the local bishop’s credit, he told me that pastors did not have that authority. The pastor ended up going out of town over a weekend a few weeks after the incident and told me I could preach if the content was not controversial. I would submit that the whole of the Gospel is controversial! …
