A Border Bishop Speaks

Bishop Daniel Flores of the Diocese of Brownsville has this most awesome reflection situating the church's teaching on life with the teaching on the dignity of the immigrant.  I have always held that the two should be seen in concert as they are dual manifestations of the fundamental biblical principle of welcoming the "other," whoever he or she may be and in whatever condition or state of life they live, be it the pre-born baby in the womb or the woman seeking to cross the Rio Grande to clothe and feed her children.