VATICAN RADIO -- In a press conference on Monday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said “now is the time” to fix the nation’s broken immigration system.
Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chair of the USCCB Communications Committee, also took part in the press conference. He spoke with Vatican Radio about the principles that should inform immigration reform. “What the bishops are looking for, and the principles that we are seeking to see bolstered and protected and used are really the sanctity of human life – that these are human beings that we are talking about, and that we have to provide a system for them to be safe and a just system, a workable system to protect them in the very dangerous process of immigration.”
Read more and hear the Vatican Radio interview with Bishop Wester at http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/04/26/us_bishops_call_for_comprehensive_immigration_reform/en1-686772
Also see Bishop Wester's column "Let's move forward with immigration legislation" and the Intermountain Catholic article "Immigration reform is needed now, bishops say." The link to both articles may be found on the home page.
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