Every Fourth of July, Americans celebrate the hard-won right to govern themselves: to form a nation, to defend its borders, and to craft laws for the common good. This year, as fireworks were about to light up the night sky, President Donald Trump signed into law what he called the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” And right on cue, the professional Catholic Left collapsed into hysterics.
You would think Planned Parenthood had been made a federal sacrament. Instead, the bill did the unthinkable: it paused their federal funding for a single year, cut taxpayer money for mutilating children under the euphemism of “gender transitions,” and took a first real stab at border enforcement since the Eisenhower era. Naturally, the USCCB and the editorial pages of America Magazine wailed as if the gates of hell had been opened, when in fact, some of them are merely being closed at the southern border.
This is the kind of hypocrisy that only post-conciliar Catholicism could produce.
Where Were They When Babies Died?
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the USCCB, denounced Trump’s bill as including “unconscionable cuts” to food assistance and “harmful” immigration provisions. He bemoaned that the ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood was reduced from ten years to one. But let’s pause.
Where was this energy when Democrats pushed the “Women’s Health Protection Act” to codify Roe into federal law? Where were the USCCB tears when Catholic hospitals were forced to cover contraception, “transition” surgeries, and sterilization under Obamacare? Where was America Magazine’s moral outrage when Biden’s HHS redefined sex itself?
It’s not there. Because these bishops and Catholic media elites only weep when Caesar threatens their government subsidies. They’ve learned to live with child murder, gender ideology, and sodomitical unions. But deport an illegal alien? That’s where they draw the line.
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