Many arguments against migration suggest that only certain groups of people (the “blood”) are suitable to live on this land (the “soil”) and that only those belonging to those groups are true Americans. This is intellectually refined Trumpism—it is also immoral and un-American.
David E. DeCosse
David E. DeCosse is the director of religious and Catholic ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
It’s time for the U.S. bishops to revise their Catholic voting guide
The U.S. bishops need to revise—or replace— “Faithful Citizenship” in order to better reflect the teaching of Pope Francis and to respond to the authoritarian populist nationalism of Donald Trump and his administration.
Posted inFrom Our Archives
Can Citizenship Be Earned?: Legal remedies for undocumented immigrants
Legal remedies for undocumented immigrants
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
Dialogue and Democracy
The Catholic Church is not, as many old hands in the Vatican are quick to say, a democracy. But that quick judgment may arise in part because those old hands have not sufficiently come to terms with modern democracy itself. The chapter titled Political Community in the Vatican’s recently publi