What Does the Church Teach About Immigration? Open Borders?
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
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🗓️ 15 February 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Completely different content from Fr. Chris' recent homily on this topic. With so much confusion about immigration today, what do Christians need to know? Should we have open borders? What does Jesus and the Bible say? Is Pope Francis right on this issue? Does his letter to the Catholic Bishops have to be followed? Hear Fr. Chris Alar answer these questions and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us here at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy coming to you live all around the world. We're grateful you could be with us. It is a wonderful opportunity on a special day. Not only today is the feast of Blessed Michael Sopochko, who will I'll be talking about in our Mass here at the National Shrine. |
| 0:21.6 | It's also the feast day of the confessor of St. Margaret Mary Alacocque, |
| 0:26.6 | who's the connection with St. Faustina is amazing. |
| 0:29.6 | Both of those two died on this day, February 15th, |
| 0:33.6 | so the confessor of Faustina, the confessor Jean de Colombier, from the confessor of Margaret Mary. |
| 0:42.0 | And it's also the feast day of St. Faustus from which St. Faustina got her name. |
| 0:48.4 | And so keep in mind, today's a beautiful day. |
| 0:51.2 | If you want to know more about Blessed Michaelael sepuchco i did a talk |
| 0:54.3 | before which is on this website uh father bill quinlan our good friend of buffalo does a good job of |
| 1:00.0 | a lot of work on blessed michael sepocco so um god bless you and we pray to him today um and now |
| 1:07.1 | before begin with a prayer uh we are going to be doing an expanded talk about immigration |
| 1:12.6 | and church teaching. And I got to say this. Well, first of all, it's going to be completely |
| 1:17.7 | different from my homily. No double dipping from the homily that I did a couple days ago. |
| 1:24.7 | But I do have to admit, you know, this is the beauty when Brother Mark |
| 1:28.9 | set us up on the live streams. And I know sometimes I can be a little bit downhardened when I |
| 1:34.4 | read some of the comments. And oh, there was a ton of those on this last homily. We had to delete several. |
| 1:40.7 | And then, you know, just bad words and really bad things. So we had to delete them. But you know just bad words and really bad things so we had to delete them but |
| 1:45.9 | you know god is working i went through every one of those there's almost 2,000 comments now on that |
| 1:53.0 | one video and i read everyone it's took me hours and hours but you know my heart so many people |
| 2:00.3 | brought up in support of it, but others brought up |
| 2:02.8 | well, Father, you didn't hit on this, you didn't hit on that, and I was going through it, and I was like, |
| 2:06.6 | you're right, you're right. And this is what's beautiful about fostering what we have with you |
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