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The Bishops’ Misplaced Priorities, by S.A. McCarthy – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Bishops’ Misplaced Priorities, by S.A. McCarthy

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By S.A. McCarthy, The American Spectator, March 28, 2026

Immigration eclipsed abortion as the central political concern of America’s Catholic leadership.

Last week, The Atlantic’s Francis X. Rocca penned a damning indictment of America’s Catholic bishops, although I doubt he intended it as such. “The most urgent political concern for America’s Catholic leaders is no longer abortion; it’s immigration,” Rocca wrote. Noting that immigration concerns are addressed in Catholic teaching, he added, “But now immigration dominates U.S. Catholic leaders’ public messaging.”

How shameful. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly four years ago, but the butchering of unborn children in their mother’s wombs continues anyway. According to the abortion industry’s official research center, the Guttmacher Institute, abortions increased across the U.S. between 2024 and 2025, remaining above the one million mark in both cases, while the number of abortions committed via the abortion drug mifepristone increased by 26 percent. In other words, while over one million unborn children are ripped apart with scalpel and forceps or starved and expelled via a drug regimen, and the U.S. bishops are focusing their attention almost exclusively on ensuring that illegal aliens are not arrested and deported. ….

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