A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States. The Church’s obligation to participate in shaping the moral character of society is a requirement of our faith, a part of the mission given to us by Jesus Christ.
The Maryland-serving bishops: Baltimore Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl and Wilmington Bishop Michael Saltarelli urge Catholics to engage in faith-filled discussion of this issue. [En Español]. November 2007
A Pastoral Letter from Bishop Edward Slattery of the Diocese of Tulsa, OK, written in response to Oklahoma’s House Bill 1804. November 2007(Bilingüe)
By Bishop Thomas Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix, Az. November 2007
I have added this link from the Catholic News Network to provide many more bishops’ documents on this particular topic. You can search for other topics as well on the website.
A Pastoral Reflection by Bishop Paul S. Loverde, Diocese of Arlington, VA. October 2007
From the Catholic Conference of Kentucky, September 2007 (they have some nice resources in their website). This conference has also written a pastoral on immigration entitled: “Every Man and Woman is the Image of God“, August 2006.
Here is a Pastoral letter (from 1988) from California’s Hispanic Bishops addressed to the Hispanic people of California.
Here is a pastoral plan from the Diocese of New Ulm, Minnesota. The Plan for Hispanic Ministry is part of the Plan for Parishes, 2003-2008. Because of the complexity of Hispanic ministry this specific area of ministry is being addressed with its own sub-plan that interfaces the overall Plan for Parishes. The heart of the Plan is Evangelization, reaching out to our baptized and non-baptized Hispanic brothers and sisters. It is essential that any program for Evangelization take into account the language needs of the Spanish-speaking (En español). Here is a pastoral plan for the Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan.. (En español). Here is one, in draft form, from the Diocese of Owensboro, KY. (En español).
In 1990 Archbishop Eugene Marino, former Archbishop of Atlanta, (d. 1990) reflected on ministry to the growing number of Spanish-speaking Catholics in north Georgia.
Bishop John F. Kinney’s (St. Cloud, Minnesota) Pastoral Letter on Social Justice concerns. 2006
From Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Chairman of the USCCB Domestic Policy Committee.
Bishop Ramirez of Las Cruces New Mexico, is a former Executive Director of the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
A Pastoral Letter on Racial Harmony by Archbishop Alfred Hughes of New Orleans, LA. 2006
A call for solidarity with Florida’s farmworkers and other vulnerable workers. From the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops. Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe 2006 (En español). *Here is a previous letter from the bishops of the South called “Voices and Choices: A Pastoral Message on Justice in the Workplace”. In this letter they discuss the plight of those workers in the poultry industry. Bilingual, 2000. *Read what Human Rights Watch found in their report BLOOD, SWEAT, AND FEAR: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants, 2004.
A pastoral letter on migration from the Bishops of Arizona. Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe 2005. (Bilingüe)
From the Texas Catholic Conference.
Pastoral Letter on Racism by the Most Reverend Harry Flynn, Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2003
