“The USCCB’s brief abandoned faithful American Catholics to their personal consciences on the issue, while demanding a fundamentally anti-Catholic approach: love divorced from the truth.”
Jacqueline O’Hara argues that the US bishops’ intervention in Trump v Barbara substitutes moral sentiment for moral clarity, reducing a complex question of immigration, citizenship and the common good to an emotive appeal that fails to reflect the full breadth of Catholic teaching.
America’s bishops and the birthright blind spot
American Catholics deserve moral clarity regarding the ongoing immigration crisis. Unfortunately, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ amicus brief in Trump v Barbara this week failed to give them that.
The brief categorised ending birthright citizenship as an immoral attack on human dignity and so reduced a complicated moral and political issue to an incoherent emotional appeal. It also excluded or misinterpreted key Catholic teachings regarding the obligations of citizens, national leaders and immigrants. It was not even written by a Catholic.
This half-hearted attempt at virtue-signalling...
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