moral failure for
American society
as a whole … all … each
Adapted from the New York Times article, Catholic Bishops Try to Rally Opposition to Trump’s Immigration Agenda (NYT June 29, 2025), where Elizabeth Dias writes:
Leading Catholic prelates including Cardinal McElroy and Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark went even further in an interfaith letter to Senate leadership on Thursday night, strongly urging them to vote against the bill entirely.
In their letter they claimed that the bill, which calls for billions of dollars to bolster ICE, would spur immigration raids, harm hard-working families and fund a border wall that would heighten peril for migrants.
“Its passage would be a moral failure for American society as a whole,” the letter states.
The letter was organized by Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., who attended an ecumenical protest against the bill last week.
“This draconian, heavy-handed, meanspirited way that the country is dealing with immigrants today, it is not fair, it is not humane, it is not moral,” he said.
“It’s something we have to really be earnest about, and do everything we can within the law to make our voices heard.”
I think that last needs to be repeated.
This draconian, heavy-handed, meanspirited way that the country is dealing with immigrants today, it is not fair, it is not humane, it is not moral.
It’s something we have to really be earnest about, and do everything we can within the law to make our voices heard.
Is that hard to understand?
This is not statement from a national news service not named FOX.
This is a statement in a letter to the United States Senate (as it us understood) from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in America.
This draconian, heavy-handed, meanspirited way that the country is dealing with immigrants today, it is not fair, it is not humane, it is not moral.
It’s something we have to really be earnest about, and do everything we can within the law to make our voices heard.
Will folks dismiss this as just something from a bunch of liars?
I will wait to see anything similar for organizations like the Southern Baptist Church or Protestant leaders like Franklin Graham.
I will wait, but I won’t hold my breath.
I will add that this would be a moral failure for American society as a whole.
As a WHOLE.
That’s all of us.
As Mr. Lincoln said, “We … will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.“
That also is worth repeating.
We … will be remembered in spite of ourselves.
No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.
Christians talk about a judgment day.
When that day comes, no personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.
Where do you want to line up on that day?
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