Donald Trump’s second term has transformed the priorities of the American Catholic hierarchy, and the formerly “conservative” bishops have been sounding more liberal. Its teaching hasn’t changed, but the president’s second term has shifted the bishops’ attention. The most urgent political concern for America’s Catholic leaders is no longer abortion; it’s immigration. And sensing the Church’s growing emphasis on immigration, Democrats recently invoked Catholic teaching to criticize the GOP. A few years ago, that sentence would have read like it had a typo.
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