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How Catholics Do Political Protest, by Robert Wyllie – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Robert Wyllie, Catholic Answers, March 17, 2026

Recent ICE protests open up the question: how should Catholics publicly air their grievances?

On February 25, 2026, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an amicus curiae brief in Trump v. Barbara, a birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court. One phrase caught my eye: “As Catholics, our faith compels us to protest laws that deny the dignity of the human person and harm innocent children.”

Immigration is a complex issue. Since I study resistance and protest from the Middle Ages down to the present day, how (and how well) my fellow Catholics understand our obligation to engage in political protest is highly interesting to me.

In many domains—family life, liturgy, even the nature of citizenship—Catholics rely on a centuries-old tradition of reflection. Political protest is not one such area, however. As Charles Taylor, the Catholic philosopher who won the Ratzinger Prize in 2019, explains in A Secular Age, the public sphere is less than three hundred years old. …

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