The head of the Catholic Church recently wrote an open letter urging American bishops to oppose the Trump administration's policy regarding illegal immigrants. It begins by pointing out that the Israelites and Jesus were immigrants at one point and then calls the deportation policy a crisis.
"The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality," the pope states.
In response, U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan, a lifelong Catholic, pointed out that the pope's stance is hypocritical and that immigration is not his wheelhouse.
"He wants to attack us for securing our border? He's got a wall around the Vatican, does he not? He's got a wall around to protect his people and himself, but we can't have a wall around the United States?" Homan posed. "He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us."
C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts says the pope is a social and political liberal, and so are a lot of American bishops.
"They're constrained from coming out of the closet, so to speak, as Democrats because of the issue of abortion," he submits. "Immigration gives them a chance to talk about something other than abortion."
He suspects the bishops are hoping Hispanic immigrants, both legal and illegal, will bolster the American Catholic Church, which more than 40% have left.
"The bishops are responsible for this, and they believe that by importing a large number of Third World immigrants, mostly from Latin America, this will balance the loss, and it will conceal their failure," Doyle explains.
In short, he says this criticism of mass deportations is "part of a cover-up."
