Saturday, January 30, 2021

Editorial: It's time for the Vatican to investigate the US bishops' conference | National Catholic Reporter

Editorial: It's time for the Vatican to investigate the US bishops' conference | National Catholic Reporter
"The four years of the Trump administration revealed much about many people. About the U.S. bishops' conference, they revealed a group unable to represent the full range of Catholic teaching and unfit to act in the name of American Catholics.

Statement after statement after statement praising Trump, the man who separated refugee children from their families and then caged them at the Mexican border, for his "pro-life" efforts.

While the conference's various committees also issued statements critiquing Trump over the death penalty and some other issues, none of those had the reach of the "pro-life" stamp of approval. And the criticisms invariably did not mention Trump by name, only making oblique  references to "the administration.""

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