Out-Of-Touch Bishops Press Ahead on Defending Illegal Aliens

On Sunday (Jan. 26), a collection of U.S. Catholic bishops’ staffers met at a Capitol Hill hotel with Catholic advocates and educators at the USCCB’s Catholic Social Ministry Gathering. In a keynote, Emilce Cuda, a Vatican official overseeing Latin American issues, had told her audience that though an inauguration “often heralds a honeymoon of hope,” there was already “an air of unrest,” and that Catholic social workers were already feeling “called to superhuman effort” to get through the next four years.

When they emerged for a coffee break, however, the gathering learned that a even a honeymoon had been too much to hope for.

In an interview that began airing on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” during the break, Vice President JD Vance had fended off criticism from the U.S. Catholic bishops about the Trump administration’s migrant policies.”If they’re worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide open border of Joe Biden,” said Vance, adding later that the bishops had “not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement.”

In a line New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan would later call “scurrilous,” Vance went on to suggest the bishops’ thinking was clouded by their concern for the funding they receive for resettling refugees. “Are they actually worried about their bottom line?” the vice president asked.

Just a week into the Trump presidency, the U.S. bishops find themselves in an unaccustomed position: For the first time in history, their character has been called into question by a Catholic standing at the helm of the U.S. government.

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