“We are truly blessed that the Catholic Church in California is vibrant and growing, but our future should not happen by accident,” said Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, the president of the California Catholic Conference, in a press release Monday.

In other words, a side effect of the inflow of illegals aliens into the United States is the growth of the Catholic Church in the United States. Great. Now we’re celebrating the growth of our church as a result of people choosing to break United States and international law. Our churches are filling with criminals. I just can’t agree with the Church’s stance on illegally entering our country. Great that it pads out the parishes, but guess what…our little parish in Rome, GA, is bursting at the seams, and I’ve heard at least one person speculate that it’s because the illegals that are filling up the parish aren’t putting their names on the roll…therefore we don’t get an additional priest to give Fr. Jim some relief. The man says 5 masses each weekend, which is, of course an exceptional circumstance. Come on into the country, but come here legally.