It's so hard for me to read such articles.  On the one hand, it's good that the Church is speaking out about immigrants -- all immigrants, including refugees (and many, many of the immigrants are refugees, even though not recognized as such, because they ARE fleeing horrible circumstances which often amount to persecution).  On the other hand, I just can't understand how the Church and its spokesmen (and the are all men) can be talking as if all is normal when the very, very critical issue of the child abuse scandal is not being addressed meaningfully.  It seems to me that all should just stop for a minute, and attention needs to be focused on this incredibly awful problem to address it in a real and meaningful way and resolve it.