As left-leaning Catholic clergy criticize President Donald Trump’s border policies, a church leader from just outside the nation’s capital is stressing that the religion certainly would support a “common sense” approach to immigration.
Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, located right across the river from Washington, D.C., issued a statement reminding the public that the Catholic Church does not support open borders but rather “a common sense approach where the duty to care for the stranger is practiced in harmony with the duty to care for the nation.”
Burbidge’s statement came as Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), suggested that some of the Trump administration’s policies on immigration “are deeply troubling and will have negative consequences,” prompting Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, to describe himself as “heartbroken” by the USCCB’s response to the efforts to stem the border crisis.
Burbidge’s statement draws on Catholic teaching on the importance of sheltering migrants, emphasizing in his statement that “the Church teaches, as does our Constitution, that a political community exists to protect the family and human dignity. We always defend and protect the most vulnerable, even as we defend the rights and duties of nations to govern themselves and to safeguard the common good.”
But he also pointed out the two-fold premise that this rests on: “to uphold human dignity and the common good.” […]
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