Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Put Not Your Trust in Princes

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, Senior Fellow at Cardus, First Things, Oct. 30, 2024

As the presidential campaign winds down, the Trump-Vance ticket is ramping up warnings of Christian persecution if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election. “The radical left is not going to leave Christians alone. It’s going to get worse and worse, and you’re going to suffer greatly,” President Donald Trump told the 11th Hour Faith Leaders Meeting in Concord, N.C., on October 21. “Ms. Harris has been an integral part of the most anti-Catholic administration in living memory—ironic given President Joe Biden’s Catholic faith,” Sen. JD Vance wrote in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on October 24.

Christians might ask in turn whether persecution is the worst the state can do to the Church. Might coopting the Church be worse? Does the Church suffer more from persecution without than from corruption within? In voting, the usual criterion is to consider what is best for the country. But what is good for the Church? ….

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