America’s Catholic bishops are once again focusing their energies on immigration concerns, subtly undermining the Catholic Church’s teachings on the subject, while highlighting their hypocrisy on the defense of the unborn.
The bishops might have a little more moral credibility on the issue had they authored a similar letter lamenting the never-heard cries of children boiled alive by saline solutions.
Last week, 216 members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted in favor of publishing a “special message” to President Donald Trump and his administration, criticizing the administration’s immigration agenda. “We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement. We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants,” the bishops wrote.
Despite obstacles and prejudices, generations of immigrants have made enormous contributions to the well-being of our nation. We as Catholic bishops love our country and pray for its peace and prosperity. For this very reason, we feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity.
“Catholic teaching exhorts nations to recognize the fundamental dignity of all persons, including immigrants. We bishops advocate for a meaningful reform of our nation’s immigration laws and procedures. Human dignity and national security are not in conflict,” the bishops complained. It is true, protecting and preserving the nation’s sovereignty, security, and homogeneity does not necessitate stripping others of human dignity.
The issue, however, is that the Trump administration has not behaved barbarously towards aliens and has, in fact, upheld the human dignity not just of aliens (recall, if you will, Border Czar Tom Homan discussing how immigration enforcement mitigates evils ranging from migrant deaths to the sex slavery of alien children) but of the American people. Women like Laken Riley and Rachel Morin were brutally assaulted, raped, and murdered by illegal aliens. Permitting and enabling such abuse does not meet the criteria for upholding either human dignity or national security.
The USCCB complained that illegal aliens in the U.S. “fear being detained” by lawful federal immigration authorities. This concern is rooted purely in emotion, rather than in the Church’s teachings. The bishops would, no doubt, laugh at the notion of publishing a similar letter bemoaning how police detectives track down murderers or robbers who fear being caught. Illegal aliens have likewise broken the law, showing a serious disregard for the American nation, her people, and her rules. Such blatant and flippant disregard flies in the face of the Catholic Church’s teachings on immigration. (If you’d like to read more about that teaching, I’ve written on it — and the U.S. bishops’ mistreatment of it — here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.)
In 2021, shortly after self-described Catholic Joe Biden ascended to the presidency, the USCCB gathered to discuss whether or not to issue a document formally barring Biden from receiving Holy Communion due to his position on abortion. Ultimately, the bishops rejected this proposal. No letter or “special message” was issued condemning the Biden administration’s wholehearted commitment to the wanton slaughter of innocent unborn children. In fact, some USCCB members — most notably, Cardinal Blase Cupich — have spoken at pro-abortion events and even honored pro-abortion politicians like self-described Catholic Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).
Despite having just emerged from four years of a presidential administration hostile to Americans of faith, bent on the destruction of unborn children in their own mothers’ wombs, the USCCB decided it would be worthwhile to whine about immigration enforcement. The bishops might have a little more moral credibility on the issue had they authored a similar letter lamenting the never-heard cries of children boiled alive by saline solutions or ripped apart by scalpel and forceps before ever seeing the light of day, or condemned the vacuuming of dismembered babies out of the only home they have ever known: their own mothers.
In the end, it could simply boil down to the fact that immigration is a lucrative issue for the bishops to focus on (some details here and here), while defending the unborn is not. Illegal aliens in the U.S. have been equipped with armies of immigration lawyers and shielded by numerous “sanctuary” states and cities, while the millions of unborn children who have lost their lives to abortion have no attorneys, no “sanctuary,” and no voice. It should be the role of the bishops, speaking with the force and authority of the 2,000-year-old institution of the Catholic Church, to be a voice for those children. But no, instead they pen “special messages” against a program aiming to protect the American people from the rapists, murderers, and drug traffickers who were ushered into the country by the very NGOs the USCCB supports.
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