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Lotta good it did

jul 6, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view

That’s their intent yes

jul 5, 2025, 8:05 pm • 2 0 • view

What the Bishop's call moral failure, R's call victory...

jul 6, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view

I’m willing to bet none of them were Evangelicals who practice prosperity worship.

jul 6, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view

As so it is!

jul 6, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view

Yeah okay, but these are still just words, from "influential" people or not, it's going to take much more to fix the damage of this regime. If that's even possible!

jul 7, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view

Only 20?

jul 5, 2025, 7:43 pm • 5 0 • view

Orders from on high! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️🧌

jul 6, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view

Oh no not another stern letter ! That will rattle the Felon….

jul 6, 2025, 6:26 pm • 1 0 • view

. Republicans are the enemy of America and Americans. They are purposely out to hurt YOU, legally.

jul 6, 2025, 3:19 pm • 1 0 • view

But not Cardinal Dolan

jul 6, 2025, 1:15 pm • 0 0 • view

It's weird that the Catholic Church supported Donald Trump, even though they knew he was going to do this. Now they don't like it?

jul 6, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view

Debt up by $3T, 17M to lose health insurance in 10 years, Min 300 hospitals will close, Min 3M will lose food assistance due to cumbersome paperwork for SNAP benefits, Household energy bills up by $170 in 10 years, 800K clean energy jobs lost by 2030, Creation of secret police generalstrikeus.com

jul 5, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view

Too bad nobody pays any attention to bishops.

jul 6, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view

Thank you for standing up!

jul 6, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view

Moral failure indeed!

jul 6, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view

Oooh. REAL Christians.

jul 6, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view

OUST DIRTY DOLAN

jul 6, 2025, 12:27 am • 1 0 • view

Finally you guys grow a spine... this Catholic is. Embarrassed..... .

jul 6, 2025, 12:26 am • 2 0 • view

They don't what happens to the , this administration is try too get rid of poor and venerable, and the middle class who is going pay for their greedy tax cuts

jul 6, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view

Want to know more? religionnews.com/2025/06/27/i...

jul 5, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view

One section, about the interfaith letter:

The letter’s 42 signers include Cardinals Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., and Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey and other Catholic bishops; Imam Jamal Rahman of the Interfaith Community Sanctuary of Seattle; Washington; Rabbi Daniel Weiner of Seattle; and Episcopal Bishop Philip LaBelle of Olympia, Washington, among top signatories. In addition to Catholics, Episcopalians, Muslims and Jews, the letter included leaders from the Evergreen Baptist Association, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the New Mexico Conference of Churches, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the National Latino Evangelical Coalition. Although interfaith letters about legislation are common, it is unusual for a group of U.S. Catholic bishops to sign on and for prelates to join an effort that supersedes the declarations of the USCCB. The interfaith letter criticized how the budget bill would continue to fund President Donald Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown, which has been widely opposed by religious groups across the U.S. In the letter, leaders said the bill “provides tens of billions of dollars to the government to undertake a mass deportation campaign which will separate US families, harm US-citizen and immigrant children, and sow chaos in local communities.” They also warned the funding “will be used to target faith communities” because of a Trump policy change allowing immigration enforcement in houses of worship. They wrote they have already witnessed a reduction in attendance at their services because of the “threat of enforcement.”

jul 5, 2025, 9:20 pm • 2 0 • view

Next section:

Just this month, apparent immigration enforcement actions occurred in California at at least two Catholic churches and a Disciples of Christ church — actions activists and faith leaders said likely would not have happened had the Trump administration not altered existing policy. The change is currently the subject of a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration by dozens of religious groups, including several represented among the signers of the interfaith letter, such as the Episcopal Church. In the letter, the interfaith leaders also raised concerns about increased funding for a border wall they “believe will drive migrants into the most remote regions of the border and lead to an increase in migrant deaths,” and about cuts to health care and food assistance, citing a Congressional Budget Office estimate that the bill “transfers wealth from those in the bottom 10 percent of income to those in the top 10 percent of income in our nation.” Instead, they advocated for legal avenues for immigration and a way for undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for years to legalize their status. The interfaith letter echoes Catholic immigration advocates who have expressed frustration with USCCB leadership for not condemning the budget bill completely, given the large increases in funding for immigration enforcement. The version of the bill that passed the House of Representatives quadruples U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s budget and increases immigration detention capacity by 800%. Kevin Appleby, the USCCB’s former migration policy director and current senior fellow for policy at the Center for Migration Studies, a New York institute that studies migration and policies, told Religion News Service earlier this month the bill “will fuel mass immigration raids like we’ve never seen.” “If the bishops fail to oppose that bill, then they’re facilitating these raids,” he said.

jul 5, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 1 • view

Next section:

The interfaith letter comes on the heels of an editorial penned earlier this month by Archbishop John Wester, who oversees the Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe, in which the cleric called on bishops to do more to oppose a bill he said “betrays the poor.” In an RNS interview earlier this month, Wester, who signed the interfaith bill, said he believes people were hoping bishops would come out stronger against the bill and that he planned to encourage fellow bishops gathering for a mid-June USCCB retreat in San Diego to join him in speaking out. “I think the bill is robbing from the poor to give to the rich,” Wester said. “It’s the opposite of the Robin Hood effect.” RELATED: Faith leaders, lawmakers argue GOP bill benefits the ultra-wealthy by hurting the poor Bishop John Stowe, a signer of the interfaith letter who oversees the Catholic Diocese of Lexington in Kentucky, said he and other religious leaders felt compelled to make their voices heard. “The treatment of immigrants or those profiled as immigrants is unconscionable and we must do everything we can to stop this cruelty, not provide additional funding at the expense of needed health care and social services,” Stowe said in a text message Friday morning.

jul 5, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 1 • view

Next sections:

Organizers say the interfaith letter is the beginning of a larger collaboration. The Rev. Gabriel Salguero, a signatory who leads the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, is promoting the letter alongside other efforts, including radio ads in both English and Spanish, to counter the bill. “This is not the pro-life, pro-family, pro-worker vision of our faith,” Salguero says in the ad, referring to the bill. The interfaith letter’s Catholic signatories feature several bishops who were placed in prominent positions by Pope Francis or saw recent promotions by Pope Leo XIV, but who have not been promoted as leaders in the USCCB. In one of his final letters before his death, Francis wrote a letter to the U.S. bishops condemning the Trump administration’s approach to immigration policy, which included a disavowal of the theology that Vice President JD Vance has used to justify a mass deportation campaign.

Some observers have argued the U.S. bishops’ failure to elevate those in favor at the Vatican within the USCCB is a sign of opposition to Francis’ teaching. Cardinal Tobin of Newark, a top signatory on the letter, lost a 2022 bid for the USCCB’s No. 3 position as secretary despite cardinals typically having an advantage in such races. Other Catholic bishops among the signatories, like McElroy and Seattle Archbishop Paul Etienne, were among those Francis chose as delegates for the Synod on Synodality, or recently received promotions to higher offices, such as San Diego Bishop-elect Michael Pham and Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenberger. While Leo has had less time to make his close allies known, the interfaith letter suggests a coalition of Francis-aligned bishops believe the USCCB is not doing enough to meet the moment. Shifting the USCCB’s more buttoned-down, conservative-leaning approach to public advocacy may prove difficult. Even when the conference has opposed Trump’s immigration policies, it has often done so on its own terms: earlier this year, when a group of religious organizations collectively sued the administration over its decision to halt to the refugee resettlement program, the USCCB filed a separate solo lawsuit rather than join the other faith groups. But as pressure mounts, the USCCB’s go-it-alone approach may already be changing. In March, the conference partnered with evangelical groups to release a report noting that about 1-in-5 Catholics and 1-in-12 Christians are at risk of deportation or losing a member of their household to deportation with the current policies in place.

And despite their differences, both letters add to growing faith-based pushback to the budget proposal. Over the past two months, the Rev. William Barber and other religious leaders have been repeatedly arrested in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda while praying against it. Multiple groups of religious leaders have also rallied on Capitol Hill and on the U.S. Capitol steps, protesting and praying with activists and Democratic lawmakers to decry the proposed legislation.

jul 5, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 1 • view

So now that this disastrous bill has passed, any inkling as to what the Bishops & interfaith agencies tend to do?

jul 6, 2025, 10:57 am • 0 0 • view

👍🆘

jul 6, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view

And the traitorous, turncoats in Congress passed it anyway. Chuck them out ASAP.

jul 6, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view

Its the same GOP, always lying because their constituents can't handle the truth/

jul 5, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view

jul 5, 2025, 8:05 pm • 3 1 • view

That it is

jul 6, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view

It's so laughable to hear these guy's whining right now, specially when it's 20 out of thousands.

jul 5, 2025, 8:23 pm • 2 0 • view

The Church should excommunicate any Catholic working in the Trump administration and Homeland Security.

jul 5, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view

I'm not Catholic, but I sure have a great deal of respect for their speaking up. The rest of the clergy is staying far to silent. You all are going to have some explaining to do.

jul 5, 2025, 9:21 pm • 5 0 • view

"Explaining" to who?

jul 7, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view

God, why they followed a spawn of Satan.

jul 7, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view

No explanations required, as they're all spawns of satan. Not that it would matter to them anyway.

jul 7, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view

This Catholic agrees and says shout it out loud.

jul 6, 2025, 12:30 am • 2 0 • view

Religion is a large part of why we are in this mess. Religion is not going to help us.

jul 6, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view

BUT Trumps “Christian supporters” know he is above Jesus and God. Those “ Christians” love that Old Testament smiting . So bishops of the Catholic Church don’t matter.

jul 6, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view

Christianity, just a rogue sect of the Jewish religion.

jul 6, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view

Well for that matter so is Islam. All 3 come from Abraham. So this is a family squabble.

jul 6, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view

Not one word about Opus Dei and its members billionaires Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow. Justice Alito is a member. They own the Supreme Court, got Roe v Wade overturned & are creating a theocracy where women are powerless. Peter Thiel got JD Vance into Opus Dei. Catholic Church won’t touch the cult.

jul 5, 2025, 9:53 pm • 6 3 • view

This Vicar met with Pope Leo in the spring so the Church does acknowledge it. They enslaved minor girls to a life of relogious "servitude." These billionaires are hellbent on enslaving women. bsky.app/profile/slig...

aug 26, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view

Pope Francis drove Knights of Malta out, but he didn’t have a meeting with Opus Dei before he died. Pope Leo will need to deal with it.

aug 26, 2025, 6:22 pm • 1 0 • view

Why in the hell ONLY 20!!!🤬😡 Where are the rest of ‘em!!!??? EVERY denomination of every faith should be up in arms against this entire administration, and should’ve been way back 12 years ago when Trump first thought about running!!! That is, if they believe in the Golden Rule, as they should!😳

jul 5, 2025, 7:32 pm • 14 0 • view

This Catholic agrees....oust dirty dolan...

jul 6, 2025, 12:28 am • 4 0 • view

Wish they'd spoken up sooner 😔

jul 6, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view

Flagofficers4america.com

jul 6, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view

To bad the whole excommunication thing is so passé. You used to be able to reign in kings with that threat.

jul 6, 2025, 12:13 am • 2 0 • view

jul 5, 2025, 7:54 pm • 2 1 • view

Where were they before? I don't recall much outcry from the catholic church about this before.

jul 6, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view

More Christian leaders plz stand up & speak out against the Trump Admin. We were always a country who helped those in need using our own farmers crops preventing waste. Instead, Trump has canceled feeding & medicine 4 MILLIONS of people in favor of Mars space missions...we can't breath on Mars!! (1)

jul 5, 2025, 10:58 pm • 3 1 • view

Also republicans have opted to take away fr/SNAP feeding our own less fortunate for space programs to Mars, where we will never inhabit! Hold off the space programs for later & not increase the deficit!

jul 5, 2025, 11:08 pm • 3 0 • view