The Catholic Church in the US is distressed about Trump’s immigrant policies:
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, the USCCB president, said in a Wednesday statement that some provisions of Trump’s executive actions, including those that affect immigrants and refugees, “are deeply troubling and will have negative consequences.”
To which Vance came back:
“I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns?” Vance questioned. “Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?”
That’s an interesting twist to this whole thing, but it isn’t the only one. As someone a) with Scots-Irish background (not as much as his) and b) who swam the Tiber in my time, I can say that he’s beginning to realise that Roman Catholicism, for all of its doctrinal and worldview strengths, is an institution with issues, and those issues are central because institutionalism is what the Roman Catholic Church is all about.
In my time the Church played both sides of the street on social justice issues. It wasn’t as bad as the Episcopal Church (and that was on display last week) but it was bad enough. It ultimately was what broke me of being Roman Catholic. He may connect the dots and he may not, but what’s going on now is certainly something for him to think about.
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