Trump’s New Dept. of Justice Must Bankrupt the Deep Church, Which Fights Enforcement of America’s Just Immigration Laws, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, November 20, 2024

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

Equipping Christians to Think Clearly About the Political, Economic and Moral Issues of Our Day.

I have a proposal for President-Elect Donald Trump’s new attorney general and Department of Justice: Launch a RICO investigation of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Conduct the national investigation which my church’s bishops have so far dodged into 1) the systemic cover-up of clerical sex abuse and 2) the human trafficking conducted by church-controlled nonprofits of illegal immigrants.

The DOJ should also investigate the role which the Vatican itself has played in encouraging the sex abuse coverup — for instance by directly interfering with reform efforts by our bishops, giving the lie to the legal fiction that each Catholic diocese is an independent corporation enjoying bankruptcy protection, and that the Vatican ought to be immune to sex abuse lawsuits. Nor are the sex abuse and immigration issues completely separate. As The Stream reported in 2023: …

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