To the editor: I’m interesting to Christians in Los Angeles and those that had been raised Christian and nonetheless have good values to talk up in opposition to these merciless raids (“A crisis of faith: ICE raids force some churches to take ‘extraordinary’ action,” July 11). The Bible tells us to deal with strangers. Undocumented immigrants have to be handled as people with histories and given due course of. They need to have authorized standing after years on this nation. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has acknowledged that many are solely right here illegally due to our damaged immigration system and Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the USCCB, said mass deportations “symbolize a profound social disaster earlier than which no particular person of excellent will can stay silent.”
Every particular person on this nation has the appropriate to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We’re watching good folks’s lives being destroyed by racists who solely care about themselves and never about their neighbors or our nation. A real Christian is just not crammed with hate. Jesus’ commandment is to like our neighbors as ourselves, and people of us who try to be true Christians should converse up now and act to guard and shelter the least of those: our immigrant neighbors, co-workers and pals.
Laura Murray, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I’m sorry my fellow Catholics are afraid to go to Mass in particular person, however I perceive their concern. For individuals who have a pc, there could also be one factor that may assist.
Initially of the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Monica’s Catholic Group invested in a number of tv tools and broadcast the Sunday Mass on-line. It proved so fashionable that it continues. Folks from throughout the nation tune in as a result of they just like the neighborhood.
Kay Devonshire, Santa Monica