The following comes from a November 14 Crux article:
WASHINGTON – The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are urging President-elect Donald Trump to adopt humane policies toward immigrants and refugees.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said serving and welcoming people fleeing conflict and violence is part of their identity as Roman Catholics. Church leaders said they would continue to offer that aid.
Trump talked tough about immigration on the campaign trail, including proposing building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and deporting the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally. He later distanced himself from those statements.
In an interview with the CBS program “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday night, he said he would focus on deporting people with criminal records beyond their immigration status.
Trump also has called to suspend the admission of Syrian refugees in the country.
The bishops made the plea Monday, at the start of their annual fall meeting in Baltimore.
The Catholic Bishops should be asking President Elect Trump why there are not more Christian and Catholic refugees coming to America and other countries. Surely Catholic Bishops should be the number 1 supporters for Christian and Catholic refugees that are being wiped out throughout the Middle East and parts of Africa.
Yes, why have the USCCB not been asking the BO administration to sponsor Catholic refugees? Why have more muslim refugees (98%) been allowed in for the last 8 years under the USCCB watch? Follow the government’s charitable grant money given to & received by USCCB charities. Bought the silence (about Catholic refugees) for 8 years. Continued…..
Continued……..Part 2: Why be so rude to PE Trump? Maybe they are attempting to squeeze out more federal grant $$ with their ‘strong stand’ on immigration? The USCCB has big hearts when grant money is flowing into their charities & it’s paid for on the backs of others (in this case American citizens). Here’s a study in contrast: Watch how fast bishops close under-funded churches or schools. It will make you cry as the remaining parishioners try to keep things going as it affects their entire lives, usually elderly & poor. Why is there no CHARITY for those poor displaced people?
But I digress. The bishops need to make the church great again. And stay out of politics.
this seems to me to be a way of getting off on a bad foot with the president-to-be. would it not have been more respectful, personal and meaningful if a communication to this effect were made quietly, perhaps by the nuncio. hopefully a private letter went out before this public call. otherwise it might seem a way of shaming him to action, a ‘calling out’ in front of the nation. he deserves a better approach, pastoral, personal, not a political fight tactic from the get-to. it’s the year of mercy even for Caesar.
You’re right, david drewelow, but like the leftist tantrums in the streets, this will be viewed, as a poor example and political showdown, instead of true, wise Catholicism. These imprudent bishops are having a Trumper Tantrum because their “Catholic Spring” has been thwarted. Trump was primarily elected because he wants to protect our nation’s borders. Many in the world and within the Church will view these leftist leaning Trumper Tantruming bishops as the inept moral authority who also FAILED to protect their own flocks. Without a major conversion, you can’t take the *P* out of progressive minded bishops and thank God that there’s no need to take the T (for True) out of Traditional minded Catholics. Remember Wikileaks!
Crisis Magazine – Wikileaks Reminds Us Why the Left Opposes Catholicism
by Steve Greene
When Wikileaks recently dumped the cache of emails featuring Clinton staffers and allies mocking Catholics, and plotting a revolutionary “Catholic Spring,” I was neither shocked nor outraged. Granted, it is a little irritating to discover that the agenda-makers on the left look at you as though you were something they had just fished out of a clogged drain, but I wasn’t shocked. I have always just assumed that, behind closed doors, this is pretty much how the conversation goes with the liberal left.
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Conservative Catholics are an inexplicably intractable barrier to their agendas, and the mystery of how such “severely backwards” folk can be a wrench in their progressive system must be a source of unending frustration to them.
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/wikileaks-reminds-us-left-opposes-catholicism
I could not agree with you more, if Bishops are “honestly” concerned of the welfare of the Christians fleeing for their safety private meeting with the Predident Elect Trump should have been the honest mode to discuss this matter. These Leftist Bishops’ “public ” clamor seems to become their modus operandis to display their continuing support for the liberals & the fact that the Pope is now making changes to the statures within the Vatican that could impact “defense of life” is quite ironic to the proposal to deport illegal criminal immigrants.
“The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said serving and welcoming people fleeing conflict and violence is part of their identity as Roman Catholics.”
If that was ACTUALLY true then the USCCB would FIRST be welcoming back and serving Catholic refugees who think they were forced out of their own Church. Like it or not, agree with it or not, on Legion of Mary door to door home visits, many say that they fled the Church when the Mass was changed. They are so stunned when they learn that a few churches in their area now provide the TLM Mass. The people make remarks such as, “Are you kidding me? Is this really true?” These suffering refugees feel that their Catholic “identity” was “violently” stripped away.
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Charity, begins at home, not with Brokeback Mountain promoting moneychangers in the temple, who benefit from millions of Federal $$$ per refugee.
Well said Catherine!
Deport the majority of the US bishops, and we’d all be better off.
Love the idea! Can you imagine some of them, cushy life styles* for years, adjusting to say, the hinter lands of the asian or african continents or middle east?
* Best foods, fine living, great mansions, travel, new cars, fancy moneyed friends, fund raisers with the wealthy, etc. That would be mostly gone in the bush country.
Most of us would have thought that the USCCB would immediately step forward to offer support for President-elect Trump in his efforts to curtail abortion to the degree possible in this country. That is a true life-or-death issue.
But their Democrat operatives, from whom they take orders and their money, as proven by Wikileaks, would not allow it.
The USCCB = accepted Soros money (for pope visit) + government grants = lost souls.
Why let unholy abortion get in the way of all that money & power? Sad.
Trump, though a libertine, ought to press these Gasbags on abortion, child abuse, and even Catholic orthodoxy, just to give them a taste of their own vain impertinence.