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There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.
This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.
Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.
Ultimately, it is only the witness who convinces people, not the teacher.
Voting for a candidate solely because of that candidate's support for abortion or against him or her solely on the basis of his or her race is to promote an intrinsic evil. To do so consciously is indeed sinful. That is behavior incompatible with being a Christian.
We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.
We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.
We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.
We budget quite a bit of money every year in order to assist people who are migrating here, people who are trying to enter into our society and be a part of the American dream.
We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.
We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.
We don't need more divisive language or programs and policies that are going to tear the fabric of the nation apart.
We have always wanted to make sure that we start the conversation by saying that all people are of value and their lives should be respected and that we should respect them.
We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past.
We have to be sure we don't pigeonhole one group as though they're not part of the human family, as though there's a different set of rules for them. That would be a big mistake.
We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it.
We have to believe in the mercy and grace of God to trigger conversion rather than the other way around: that you're only going to get the mercy if you have a conversion. The economy of salvation doesn't work that way.
We have to learn. We have to listen to where people are. We have to listen to where the Spirit is working in the lives of people.
We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.
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