Since the opening day, as President Trump has sought to break the federal government, Christian leaders-who are skipping with Trump, especially with his vice president, JD Vance- in general dust about the nature of charity. The conflict was brought on Tuesday after the opening, when, during the service of prayer in the National Cathedral, Marian Edgar BodyThe Bishop of the Episcopal in Washington, DC, asked Trump to “have mercy” to the people who feared the policies he pledged to age: collective deportation of immigrants and reducing legal protection for gay and gay people. The bishop’s challenge was rare – a direct personal appeal to a person who generally protected him from this interest. On immigration, her call is like something like the position of consensus. Christian leaders, including Pope Francis and the National Council of Churches, which represents the opinions of more than ten Protestants and Orthodoxy, condemned Trump’s proposals and politics on immigration since he launched his first presidential campaign, almost a decade ago.
In January, after Trump’s re -expansion, the bishops of Catholican, Cardinal Palasish, from Chicago, and Joseph Tobin, from Newark, both close to the Pope, spoke categorically in supporting immigrants – Kubic during a Mass in Mexico City, Tobin during the Day of Religions. In Newark. Cardinal Robert McLeroy, from San Diego, who was appointed by the Pope’s head of Washington’s new capital, drew special attention when he noticed the need to balance the nation’s control over its borders by respecting “the dignity of every human person,” and said that “the huge random deportation throughout the country will be an order Not compatible with the Catholic doctrine. ” He added, “We will have to see what appears in the administration.”
Shortly after the bishop of Body Trump, many Catholic bishops developed data of similar nature. John Wester, from Santa in the Christian necessity “to take care of the resident and the strange”. Mark Cates, from El Paso, who is the head of the American Bishops Committee for Immigration, criticized stopping the resettlement of refugees, ignoring the refugee process, questioning the recovered citizenship, and defending the so -called “committed” to unify the American identity. After the administration announced the deportation raids, The Citizen Group joined the Catholic Health Assembly in the United States and Catholic charities in the United States of America in a statement indicating that “the enforcement of the inappropriate immigration in schools, places of worship, social service agencies, and healthcare facilities”, such as “will be contrary to public good” . Four days later, a group of Koker gatherings filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Internal Security, which claimed that the plans of the worship raid violated the constitutional “religious freedom guarantee”.
The data was remarkably moderate, but it was too much for JD Vance. In “Face The Nation” for CBS, the vice president, a transformation to Catholicism, said, “I think the American Catholic Bishops Conference needs to be considered a little mirror and realizes that when they receive more than a hundred million dollars to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they We are worried about human concerns? The church’s website suggested on the Internet to be a visitor on Sunday that the observation of one hundred million dollars was a reference to 129.6 million dollars received by the Bishops Conference in 2023 on “refugee services”, and indicated that the conference reported spending $ 134.2 million On these services, or 4.6 million dollars more than the government.
Then the head of the New York bishops, Cardinal Timothy Doulan, took the case in his weekly program on the Cyrus XM Catholic Channel. Cardinal is not an enemy of the president: At a conference by Trump with religious leaders during the 2020 campaign, Doulan joined that his mother was created for him to call Trump more often than he called. Cardinal led the opening prayers in both Trump’s inauguration. In December, he did not provide any examples, but he told Fox Maria Barteromo that Trump “takes his Christian faith seriously.” Doulan did not speak against the president in his program-only the vice president, declaring that he had “wounded” the “obscene” notes. “Do you think we find money for immigrants? We lose it on a grip.”
Vans turned to Catholicism only five and a half years ago, but suddenly a church member in the United States. He was taught by Dominican Men and was baptized in St. Gertrude, Dominican Priuery in Cincinnati. It was appropriate, then, three days after Doulan’s statements, was prepared on TV with talk points from the most famous Dominican ever: the philosopher in the thirteenth century and the theologian Thomas Akinas. Speaking to Sean Hanity from Fox, Vans suggested that the efforts made to provide a charitable institution for immigrants, which are preferred by the “far left”, contradicts the Catholic teaching. There is “a very old school-and I think it is a very Christian concept, by the way-you love your family and then love your neighbor, then love your community, then you love your colleagues on your dates, and then gives priority to the rest What is required “or Ordo AmoresIt is stipulated in “Summa the theologian” – a tremendous, and founding work of the Catholic thought, that Akinas left his death, in 1274. Vancet appears to mean that the avenue of Americans of immigrants was in contradiction with it.
Vice President was immediately challenged on social media by Rorrei Stewart, Academy, author and former politician of the Conservative-and English-who launched the notes “strange” and “pagan” in the pre-gospel to another love. Stewart added: “We must start anxiety when the theologian politicians become, we are supposed to talk about Jesus, and we tell us any matter of love,” Stewart added. Vans multiplied: “Just Google” Ordo Amoris “, written on X.” Does Ruri really think that his moral duties for his children are the same duties for a strange person who lives thousands of miles away? no one? “
All this prompted another series of comments, this time on the nature of charity and how it is implemented in American society today. On the almost every day it was hosted by the conservative website The Dispatch, Bishop Seitz suggested that Vans was badly aware of both Aquinas and the church work. “Certainly, no one will differ from that you have a basic responsibility to serve your most urgent family and then the community around you,” said Citz. He is My neighbor? – Thus challenging any idea that these responsibilities avoid obligations to help strangers.
Vans spoke again, though. In his speech to the International Religious Freedom Summit, an annual conference in Washington, DC – which this year, ranging from the Evangelical Billy Graham Association and the Santalology Church to the definition – claimed that the United States sends “hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars abroad to non -governmental organizations designated for publication Atheism. He did not provide any evidence, but he apparently referred to the Al -Wakbat Agency[TheAmericanAgencyforDevelopment[الوكالةالأمريكيةللتنميةElon Musk I took first steps towards dismantling earlier in the week.
But the framing of the Musk raid on the American Agency for International Development as a game supporter ignores the fact that the agency is a strong supporter of religious relief groups. Jacques Jenkins also mentioned the news service in a report on the Summit of Freedom, in recent years, the NGO that received the largest annual grants from the United States Agency for International Development are the Catholic Relief Services, a charitable organization and the development of the American Catholic Bishops. CRS was founded in 1943 to help survivors and refugees from World War II; It is based in Baltimore and is now working in one hundred and twenty countries. Last week, CRS CEO and CEO, Sean Kalhan, told employees (nearly seven thousand, in a recent estimate) that the organization will have to expand assistance efforts and benefit from employees, due to the low money that will follow this, the US Agency for International Development (Judge The American boycott temporarily prevented the main aspects of the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the agency.)
For more than half a century, CRS focused its efforts for refugees abroad. But the last local refugee project, in the first half of the sixties, was a huge pledge: resettlement in Miami is nearly five hundred thousand Cuban, fleeing the Castro revolution. The political figure associated closely with the American Miami Cuban community today is Marco Rubio, who is now Foreign Minister Trump, who left his family members Al -Jazeera starting in 1956. Rubio, the last director of the Agency at the United States Agency for International Development, announced. So the proceeded dismantling of the agency is the incitement by an official from the same organized sponsorship community that will be greatly affected by it.
