The Buffalo Catholic Diocese is amplifying calls for compassion for immigrants through a pastoral letter drawing on more than 130 years of Catholic social teaching.
Bishop Michael Fisher’s letter reinforces a message from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops calling to end “de-humanizing rhetoric” and violence against immigrants.
“Jesus himself was an immigrant,” Father Mark Noonan, pastor of the Orleans Niagara East Catholic Community, said.
The letter, distributed to priests across the Buffalo Diocese, reinstates a message delivered in mid-November from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In their statement, the bishops said, “to our immigrant brothers and sisters, we stand with you in your suffering since when one member suffers, all suffer.”…