Yesterday, the Trump Administration’s leader on border enforcement, Tom Homan, responded on EWTN to a rare Special Pastoral Message from the USCCB on immigration.
Today, the USCCB offered its own response to Homan.
From OSV News:
Chieko Noguchi, a spokesperson for the USCCB, said in written comments shared with OSV News, “The bishops of the United States have spoken together and in unity with Pope Leo XIV.”
“The position of the Catholic Church is clear: ‘Human dignity and national security are not in conflict. Both are possible if people of good will work together.’ We invite all Catholics and people of good will to reflect on the Special Pastoral Message,” she said.
According to “Lumen Gentium,” the Second Vatican Council’s dogmatic constitution on the church, “Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff, are to be respected by all as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth. In matters of faith and morals, the bishops speak in the name of Christ and the faithful are to accept their teaching and adhere to it with a religious assent.”
At the bishops’ plenary assembly, the message was approved by all but a handful of voting bishops and was met with a standing ovation.
