Just wrote a piece for the National Catholic Register on Catholics and Immigration Reform. While researching the article, I discovered that the U.S. bishops may be forced to back down from their long-term support for comprehensive immigration reform. Two Immigration bills -- one introduced by Rep. Mike Honda, and Sen. Patrick Leahy have embraced the issue of family reunification as a platform for advancing the status of same-sex unions. The Catholic Church plays a key role in the pro-reform coalition, and now its even more fundamental commitment to Catholic moral teaching on marriage and family life will be sorely tested.
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