For decades, the U.S. Catholic bishops have operated like open-borders activists, hectoring Republican politicians for not supporting illegal immigration.
- They portray support for illegal immigration as "Catholic teaching."
- The Church has never officially taught that it is "unjust" for a country's leaders to enforce immigration laws.
- Securing the border and enforcing immigration law certainly fall under the just authority of the state.
They alienate large segments of the American population and weaken the Church's stance on the centrality of natural law to the common good.
- Yes, an unjust law is no law, but what is unjust about America's laws against illegal immigration? They mirror immigration laws across the world, including in the countries from which illegal immigrants leave.
The pro-amnesty bishops have deluded themselves into seeing their virtue-signaling as virtuous
- It is not. It is just one more incitement to bad behavior.
- These bishops think their moral preening will rehabilitate the Church as an authoritative voice in public affairs after a period of disrepute. Who are they kidding?
https://spectator.org/the-u-s-bishops-celebration-of-illegal-immigration/
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