{"id":5954,"date":"2006-09-12T09:24:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T09:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/chaput-on-the-road.html"},"modified":"2006-09-12T09:24:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T09:24:26","slug":"chaput-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/chaput-on-the-road.html","title":{"rendered":"Chaput on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archbishop Chaput of Denver is traveling around his see, talking about immigration:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The crowd sat on folding chairs while immigrants listened in with translation headsets as Chaput, speaking under a 25-foot portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe, opened by explaining the church’s immigration position as one that respects the rule of law but also believes immigrants have a right to human dignity and freedom. <\/p>\n

This is Chaput’s third such meeting since July. He also has faced a heavily working-class immigrant crowd in Greeley and a mostly well- to-do Anglo parish in Centennial. <\/p>\n

The mostly relaxed 90-minute session was a combination of lengthy, impassioned statements from audience members interspersed with some tart exchanges with the archbishop. <\/p>\n

One of the most pointed exchanges came in the opening question from Edward Powers, who later identified himself as the owner of a Texas manufacturing firm and who said he lives 40 percent of the time in the Vail Valley. <\/p>\n

"With all due respect, bishop, I do believe people should respect the law," Powers said, adding that when his family came from Ireland during the 19th century, respect for the law was paramount. <\/p>\n

He wondered why immigration laws couldn’t be structured so that there was an orderly process, for example, to get a green card. <\/p>\n

Asked Chaput: "You’re going to make parents leave their children and go back (to their home country) and wait in line for five years for a green card? Is that sensible?" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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