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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious about how Catholics are thinking about the current position of the Pope, which is decidedly against the Trump administration's immigration policies.

If you're Catholic and opposed legal abortion because the Catholic church was against it (although the government obviously supported it), are you now opposing these immigration policies for the same reason?  And if not, how can you reconcile that with being Catholic? [/quote]

We're not required to agree with the Pope's political opinions. I'm a Democrat but don't believe we need to let the entire third world flood our country to the detriment of our citizens.

Besides, it would be hypocritical to tell everyone not to impose religious beliefs about abortion on the country and then turn around and say we need to open the border because the Bible. [/quote]

Except the Bible is silent on abortion and says to welcome the poor.[/quote]

If we're going to ignore the whole "do not kill" thing, then I'd point out that Catholics are not a Sola Scriptura church and that abortion was condemned explicitly as far back as the Didache. Only recently have most of the mainline Protestant churches changed their teachings on abortion. It wasn't always a major political talking point but abortion being evil was universal across the board in Christianity until fairly recently.

It's either ignorant or disingenuous to claim that "welcome the poor" means the government should let in every single impoverished person until our social safety net collapses but at the same time, the Church's constant teaching against the evils of abortion should just be tossed aside. Either Catholic teaching should influence our votes or it shouldn't.

Also, the instructions given to welcome the poor, to give to the poor, etc, were always given to either individuals (sell all you have and give to the poor) or to theocratic governments (remember you were strangers in the land of Egypt). It's hardly the same situation. We're called to give to charity, not to vote for specific social programs. In fact, letting in waves of poor migrants impacts our ability to serve the poor who already live here. [/quote]

Except that we aren't talking about not letting in waves of migrants.  We are talking about pushing mothers and babies back into the water at Rio Grande, putting small children into detention camps with deplorable conditions and no parents, about rhetoric that embraces hate and disgust for others.  Moreover, the same government is pushing policies that hurt the poor here, slashing medicaid and nutritional programs for children, cutting out school lunch programs, and eliminating whole agencies that are dedicated to providing services to the poor, all in order to fund tax cuts for the weathy.

If you support this administration, then you are Catholic in name only.  There is absolutely no sound defense to support following any of the teachings of Christ or the Catholic church while supporting Trump and his appointees.[/quote]

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