Head of US Catholic bishops says deportations are causing 'fear and uncertainty' [View all]
Source: Politico
12/21/2025 03:25 PM EST
Archbishop Paul Coakley, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, warned that the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign is instilling “fear in a rather widespread manner” across the U.S. on Sunday.
Coakley, the archbishop of Oklahoma City, urged the Trump administration to “be generous in welcoming immigrants” while underlining, “We certainly have a right and a duty to respect borders of our nation.”
“This is kind of a fundamental principle in Catholic social teaching regarding immigration and migrations: People have a right to remain in their homeland, but they also ought to be allowed to migrate when conditions in their homeland are unsafe and necessitate moving to a place where they can find peace and security,” he said in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” with host Margaret Brennan.
Coakley — who was elected to a three-year term leading the conference last month — has frequently aligned with the church’s socially conservative faction, but he has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown along with other leaders in the church. On the heels of Trump’s inauguration in January, Coakley issued a statement reiterating his view that “the majority of undocumented immigrants in Oklahoma are upstanding members of our communities and churches, not violent criminals.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/21/catholic-archbishop-deportations-fear-uncertainty-00702353
Will the 5 RW Catholic + 1 RW former Catholic SCOTUS loons listen?
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