Paul Elie writes on a dispute between J. D. Vance and Catholic bishops over immigration and charity, amid a shakeup to funding for U.S.A.I.D.
In January, following Trump’s reëelection, two Catholic archbishops, Cardinals Blase Cupich, of Chicago, and Joseph Tobin, of Newark, both of whom are close to the Pope, spoke out emphatically in support of immigrants—Cupich during a Mass in Mexico City, Tobin during an interfaith service in Newark. Cardinal Robert McElroy, of San Diego, whom the Pope has appointed to be the new archbishop of Washington, D.C.
“Certainly, no one would disagree that you have a primary responsibility to serve your most immediate family and then the community around you,” Seitz said, but he added that the Gospel, as in the story of the Good Samaritan, invites us to ask, “Who is my neighbor?”—thus challenging any notion that those responsibilities obviate obligations to help strangers in need. Vance spoke out yet again, though. Addressing the International Religious Freedom Summit, an annual conference in Washington, D.C.
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