CatholicVote’s Immigration Report: A Modernist Distortion of Catholic Social Teaching
The Catholic News Agency portal (November 13, 2025) reports on CatholicVote’s document “Immigration Enforcement and the Christian Conscience,” which attempts to justify Trump-era immigration policies through selective citation of post-conciliar sources. The report claims Christians must balance “charity toward the immigrant with the common good,” while dismissing the USCCB’s criticism of mass deportations as mere “policy preferences.” CatholicVote President Kelsey Reinhardt asserts that “mercy and justice travel together,” yet the document systematically subordinates supernatural charity to naturalistic state interests.









