The Catholic Church is fighting a big battle against MAGA.
During an interview on MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle asked Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, “You’ve always supported immigrants’ rights.
What do you think about what we’ve seen from federal agents and the Department of Homeland Security in just the last few days?”
“It’s clear that we need to return to the understanding of what human dignity is about. People have to be treated in humane way,” said Cupich. “Name-calling, referring to people as vermin or animals, garbage, really puts us in a very difficult position in this country because it’s based on an understanding that each and every human being had dignity.”
Cupich appeared to be referring directly to Trump’s horrific rhetoric. The president has called Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Somali immigrant and Muslim woman, “garbage” and attacked “radical left thugs that live like vermin.”
“And so we’re going down a path in many ways a far distance from who we should be and claim to be as a nation in the world,” Cupich added.
Ruhle than asked the cardinal what it “does to a nation” when “people in positions of authority” including the president use such “dehumanizing” rhetoric.
“Well I can tell you what it has done in the past…” said Cupich. “You know today we mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and it’s important to recall the terrible tragedy that happened to the many people who were killed simply because of their faith and their traditions.”
“The Holocaust didn’t begin when they opened concentration camps. It began with words,” he continued. “And I think that we have to keep that in mind and learn from history that words do matter. And so it is important to call people out.”
“The Holy Father Pope Leo said something really very instructive for us in these days. He said that the real crisis we’re facing is one of relativism, where we reduce the truth to an opinion, or alternative facts,” said the cardinal, referencing Kellyanne Conway’s infamous MAGA slogan from the first Trump presidency.
“And I think that we need to lean into that insight as well because we saw actually what happened and yet there’s a narrative out there that’s trying to be marketed to the American people that flies in the face of what our eyes told us,” he added.
Although he didn’t mention Pretti by name, it’s clear he was talking about the flood of false statements that Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem shared after his death.
They called him a “domestic terrorist” and falsely claimed he was planning to “massacre” law enforcement.
This is what every real Christian should be doing now: speaking out against lies, asking for compassion, and resisting this fascist hate campaign from the White House.
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