Melbourne Sister of Mercy, Maureen Lohrey RSM is frustrated by the fear-mongering, sensationalism and negativity of some Australians about the number of asylum-seekers arriving in the country by boat, and believes these attitudes are based on ignorance.
LinkThe starting point of Catholic Social Teaching concerning refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people and ‘environmental migrants’, is not their legal status but rather their status as human persons made in the image and likeness of God.
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