Wasting most of my ponderous day churning my mind for an irrefutable rebuttal to the notion that any “place” in space could be “empty” of any matter at all, or that such “empty space” could exist within the atom itself, I have not yet read Archbishop Gomez’ recent essay on immigration, wherein, I’ve been told, he highlights the Spanish Catholic roots of most of the land (minus Alaska) that would become these United States, but I have just read an excellent review of it by Jack Smith at at The Catholic Key blog. Here’s the lede:
Over at NCRegister, Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez begins an essay ostensibly on the immigration debate by lamenting that too often, “we are just talking around the edges of the real issues.” He then continues for nearly 3,000 words without saying a single thing about immigration policy.
But Archbishop Gomez is not himself “talking around the edges of the real issues.” He has done something new for a Church leader in America. He has provoked, in the best sense of that word, what should be a wide consideration among American Catholics of what it means to be American and what it means to be Catholic in America. Read the full review here. Be it known, too, that we carry the book Spanish Roots of America by Bishop David Arias of Newark, NJ. You can order it here.
