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Simply googling Gomez would have saved his critics the self-own of trying to take down an anti-racist hero.
(RNS) — Responding to the murder of 22 Mexican immigrants in El Paso, Texas, in 2019, Archbishop José Gómez, who was born in Mexico, reflected on his very personal connection to the victims.
“We have seen the evil of African Americans being targeted in racist terror attacks, notably with the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015,” said Gómez. Invoking the specter of white nationalism, the archbishop of Los Angeles emphasized that the shootings in El Paso (a town in which he spent much of his life) were “carried out in the name of stopping Mexican migration.”
Defending immigrants is at the very heart of who Gómez is. In 2013, while serving as chairman of the USCCB’s committee on migration, Gomez wrote “Immigration and the Next America: Renewing the Soul of our Nation,” a book in which he called Americans’ response to immigrants “the human rights test of our generation.”
In 2007, he helped create the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders, which aimed to create more opportunities for Hispanic communities to connect to the leadership of the American church.
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In praise of Archbishop Gómez’s anti-racism
(RNS) — Responding to the murder of 22 Mexican immigrants in El Paso, Texas, in 2019, Archbishop José Gómez, who was born in Mexico, reflected on his very personal connection to the victims.
“We have seen the evil of African Americans being targeted in racist terror attacks, notably with the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015,” said Gómez. Invoking the specter of white nationalism, the archbishop of Los Angeles emphasized that the shootings in El Paso (a town in which he spent much of his life) were “carried out in the name of stopping Mexican migration.”
Defending immigrants is at the very heart of who Gómez is. In 2013, while serving as chairman of the USCCB’s committee on migration, Gomez wrote “Immigration and the Next America: Renewing the Soul of our Nation,” a book in which he called Americans’ response to immigrants “the human rights test of our generation.”
In 2007, he helped create the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders, which aimed to create more opportunities for Hispanic communities to connect to the leadership of the American church.
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In praise of Archbishop Gómez’s anti-racism
