Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

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8. I don't think so. He has not lead on this issue

A speech in June timed to coincide with a meeting of bishops after all that has happened is a bit late.

Bishop (now Cardinal) McElroy spoke out in January.

“The Catholic Church teaches that a country has the right to control its borders. And our nation’s desire to do that is a legitimate effort,” McElroy said Monday, shortly after being introduced as Washington’s eighth archbishop during an online press conference at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle amid an unusually heavy snowstorm in the nation’s capital.

“At the same time, we are called always to have a sense of the dignity of every human person. And thus, plans which have been talked about at some levels of having a wider indiscriminate massive deportation across the country would be something that would be incompatible with Catholic doctrine. So we’ll have to see what emerges in the administration

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261415/mass-deportations-incompatible-with-catholic-doctrine-cardinal-mcelroy-says-in-dc-debut

Versus Broglio in January

“Some provisions contained in the executive orders, such as those focused on the treatment of immigrants and refugees, foreign aid, expansion of the death penalty, and the environment, are deeply troubling and will have negative consequences, many of which will harm the most vulnerable among us,” Broglio wrote

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261717/us-bishops-criticize-trump-s-executive-orders-on-climate-death-penalty-immigration


“Incompatible with Catholic doctrine” versus “deeply troubling.” You can bet if this issue were abortion Broglio would have spoken more forcefully.