The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along
The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.
By Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic
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Christianity is a love story, and the love Christians are called to show their neighbors is not perfunctory and pale, but passionate and sincere. This is a tremendously difficult discipline—punishing, even, because tribalism comes so naturally to human beings, as do hatred and violence. Catholicism does not mandate open borders, but the scale and brutality of Trump’s crackdown leave little for Catholics to endorse, and point toward a deepening rift between MAGA philosophy and Catholic belief, with heightening stakes and no clear terminus. Leaders inside the Church already recognize this, though conservative elected officials are doing their best not to. Speaking during a recent roundtable, El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, an ally of Leo’s, recently suggested that the time will come when Catholics considering cooperation with Trump’s deportation regime will “have to make that difficult moral choice to say in conscience, ‘I can no longer do this.’”
