We might quibble over the number of refugees from Syria that the United States should accept, but we shouldn't debate the need to "welcome the stranger" as the Gospel implores us to do.
Catholics in the United States and "all people of good will should express openness and welcome to refugees fleeing Syria and elsewhere in order to survive," Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote in a statement Sept. 10.