Mass deportations ‘incompatible with Catholic doctrine,’ Cardinal McElroy says at DC press conference
January 07, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: At a press conference following his appointment as Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert McElroy said that mass deportations are “incompatible with Catholic doctrine.”
“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,” he said.
“At the same time, we are called always to have a sense of the dignity of every human person,” he continued. “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.”
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Posted by: feedback -
Jan. 09, 2025 8:07 AM ET USA
It's refreshing to hear that his Eminence cares about compatibility with the Catholic doctrine. All he needs is to be consistent. No picking and choosing. No paradigm shifts and Overton windows.
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Posted by: grateful1 -
Jan. 07, 2025 6:56 PM ET USA
Mass legal deportation is a necessary and appropriate corrective to mass illegal immigration. And contrary to McElroy (and, sadly, Catholic Culture, which should know better), there is nothing "indiscriminate" about the announced plan, which is to deport ASAP the 1.5 million illegals who are already under deportation orders for having committed multiple crimes while here illegally in the first place.
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Posted by: jalsardl5053 -
Jan. 07, 2025 5:56 PM ET USA
A real conundrum. Had the recognized right to protect borders been implemented by the previous secular leadership "fixing it in post" cannot be easily dismissed as an option. But then, you were recently appointed to your position by Pope Francis, not that I'm a conspiracy theorist!
