Vance ‘heartbroken’ over US Conference of Catholic Bishops condemnation of Trump over illegal immigration
Jan 27, 2025 11:00 am
By Christine Douglass-Williams
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There’s good reason for JD Vance to be “heartbroken” over the left-leaning U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It isn’t about faith and righteousness for them. Their support for illegal immigration is all about the gravy train, as Robert Spencer wrote in 2021:
The bishops, of course, have 91 million reasons — indeed, 534 million reasons — to turn against the truth and disregard the safety and security of the American people: “In the Fiscal Year 2016, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) received more than $91 million in government funding for refugee resettlement. Over the past nine years, the USCCB has received a total of $534,788,660 in taxpayer dollars for refugee resettlement programs.” With that kind of money involved, is it any surprise that the bishops want more “refugees,” and show no concern whatsoever for the possibility that they might be facilitating the entry of criminals and jihad terrorists?
The USCCB is also in step with Pope Francis’ views of illegal migration, yet to this day he remains protected by the walled Vatican and his Swiss Guard — paid for by the flock.
“Vice President Vance criticizes US bishops over immigration,” by Camillo Barone, National Catholic Reporter, January 26, 2025:
Vice President J.D. Vance sharply criticized the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in a television interview that aired Jan. 26 for the bishops’ condemnation of President Donald Trump’s recent immigration enforcement policies, suggesting that the concerns were motivated by financial interests.
In a heated exchange on CBS’s Face the Nation, Vance defended the Trump administration’s decision to empower Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conduct operations in sensitive locations, including schools and churches.
Vance was responding to questions about the bishops’ conference Jan. 22 statement condemning Trump’s orders on immigration, describing them as “deeply troubling” because they “will have negative consequences.”
Identifying himself as a practicing Catholic, Vance said he was “heartbroken” with the bishops’ position and questioned their motives, suggesting they were not rooted in pastoral concerns but instead based upon substantial federal funding U.S. dioceses receive to help resettle immigrants.
“I think the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has, frankly, not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement that the American people voted for,” the vice president said. “And I hope, again, as a devout Catholic, that they’ll do better.”….
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