THERE is a "danger" that immigrants who have come to Ireland to live and work in recent years may be treated as "disposable" during the worst recession in living memory, churchgoers were told at the weekend, writes Paul Melia.Speaking at the Annual Festival of Peoples Mass in Dublin's Pro-Cathedral, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said that "in times of economic downturn there is danger that we would think of immigrants as disposable, as so many commodities and factors in our consumer culture are used or disposed of according to necessity or whim.
"While controls of immigration are legitimate and necessary, people -- together with their families -- who in Irish society contribute to our common good have rights to security by the fact of their human dignity."
A choir drawn from from the Filipino, Chinese, Romanian and Indian communities in Dublin performed during the celebration.
A number of catechumens who have begun a process of formation in Christian faith, also received adult confirmation.
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