Mister D
09-05-2011, 08:56 AM
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On mass immigration, American Catholics have an inbuilt conflict of interest—perhaps it's more politic to call it a "tension"—between their sympathies as a subculture of immigrants in a Protestant-founded country and their duties as patriotic citizens. The prudential arguments offered by advocates of a more cautious immigration policy tend to founder against recent memories of relatives arriving in steerage from Italy, Ireland or Bavaria.
Leaving sentiment aside, when it comes to bolstering its numbers and cultural power, the plain fact is that the American Catholic Church is addicted to immigration. As in most developed countries, the Church has simply failed to pass along the Faith to the younger American generations. It struggles desperately to recruit solid, orthodox, heterosexual young men for a lifetime of underpaid, celibate service as priests.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-brogue-wears-off-why-the-catholic-church-is-addicted-to-immigration
On mass immigration, American Catholics have an inbuilt conflict of interest—perhaps it's more politic to call it a "tension"—between their sympathies as a subculture of immigrants in a Protestant-founded country and their duties as patriotic citizens. The prudential arguments offered by advocates of a more cautious immigration policy tend to founder against recent memories of relatives arriving in steerage from Italy, Ireland or Bavaria.
Leaving sentiment aside, when it comes to bolstering its numbers and cultural power, the plain fact is that the American Catholic Church is addicted to immigration. As in most developed countries, the Church has simply failed to pass along the Faith to the younger American generations. It struggles desperately to recruit solid, orthodox, heterosexual young men for a lifetime of underpaid, celibate service as priests.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-brogue-wears-off-why-the-catholic-church-is-addicted-to-immigration