America’s Catholics are facing a crisis of authority.
The social and economic realities of mass migration contradict the Vatican’s facile theologizing on open borders. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in accord with Pope Francis’ globalist conceits, opposes President Donald Trump’s resolve to curtail illegal migration. Catholics are caught between fidelity to ecclesial leadership and obedience to the just laws of our own country.
Francis’ hostility to Trump is no secret. Damian Thompson, former editor of Britain’s Catholic Herald, wrote: “In 2016, Francis gave his blessing to the Hillary Clinton campaign’s Catholic front organizations, motivated not just by their shared obsession with anti-racism and climate change but contempt for Donald Trump.” That same year, Francis declared the president “not Christian” for building a border wall.
Resentful of Trump’s re-election, Francis is raising the stakes.
The pope’s first salvo against the new administration came in January with the appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. An ally of Francis, McElroy leads the left-wing of the American hierarchy on all contentious issues, from mainstreaming LGBT sexual habits to the perceived peril of climate change. He dislikes Trump and is an outspoken critic of his immigration policies.
On Feb. 10, the pope sent a letter to the USCCB tailored to spur defiance of administration efforts to enforce existing immigration laws. His letter gilds the fallacy that rigorous border control violates Catholic social doctrine. It was an unprecedented move against a sovereign state.
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