Supreme Court and the Collapse of Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration
The article from the OSV News portal (June 25, 2026) reports on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian nationals, a decision that could affect hundreds of thousands of migrants, many of whom are Catholic. The piece presents the ruling through the lens of “Catholic social teaching,” which allegedly balances the right to migrate with a nation’s right to regulate its borders. This framing is a quintessential example of the modernist reduction of Catholic doctrine to a set of negotiable, naturalistic principles, stripped of the supernatural mission of the Church and the absolute primacy of the law of Christ the King over all nations.