USCCB Defends Illegal Alien Criminals

There is something darkly comic about watching the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops pretend to be outraged. They have slept peacefully through decades of doctrinal rot, sacramental abuse, collapsing vocations, empty seminaries, catechetical starvation, and parishes dying like autumn flies. None of that warranted a “Special Message.” None of it rose to the level of episcopal trauma.

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But immigration enforcement? Please. Fetch the smelling salts.

In Baltimore, the bishops declared an emergency because the United States occasionally enforces the law. They stood, hand-wringing, moist-eyed, and voted 216–5 to condemn the “climate of fear” allegedly created by deportations. When they finished congratulating themselves, they applauded loudly enough that the walls of the hotel ballroom may have trembled.

They were not applauding Catholic doctrine. They were applauding themselves for discovering that the Democratic Party has a heart.

The resulting document reeks of post-conciliar moral mush. It wraps politics in pious language and pretends the package is a teaching of the Church. From a Catholic vantage point, the message is a theological counterfeit: sentimental, selective, and dishonest. It collapses justice into feelings, charity into permissiveness, and Scripture into a set of props for an immigration NGO.

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The bishops want applause from the world. What they need is a reminder of Catholic tradition.

This is that reminder.

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