{"id":4559,"date":"2025-10-01T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:25:20","slug":"cardinal-mcelroy-calls-for-solidarity-with-migrants-lacking-legal-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/cardinal-mcelroy-calls-for-solidarity-with-migrants-lacking-legal-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal McElroy Calls for Solidarity with Migrants Lacking Legal Status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Madalaine Elhabbal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Catholic News Agency (CNA)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardinal Robert McElroy delivered a homily on Sunday urging Catholics to \u201cembrace in a sustained, unwavering, prophetic, and compassionate way\u201d migrants to the U.S. at a Mass for the 11th World Day of Migrants and Refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the past 110 years, Mass has been celebrated throughout our country to honor and support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/09\/pope-leo-xiv-migrants-and-refugees-embody-hope-and-joy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">immigrants and refugees<\/a> who have come to our nation as part of that stream of men and women from every land who have built up the United States into a great nation,\u201d Cardinal McElroy said in his homily at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Northwest D.C. on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut this year is different from the 110 years that have preceded it,\u201d he said, \u201cfor this year we are confronting \u2014 both as a nation and as a Church \u2014 an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/05\/report-mass-deportation-may-split-up-millions-of-us-citizen-children-from-their-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unprecedented assault<\/a> upon millions of immigrant men and women and families in our midst.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardinal McElroy described the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/02\/us-bishops-sue-trump-administration-over-refugee-resettlement-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s approach to immigration as \u201ca comprehensive campaign to uproot millions of families\u201d that \u201crelies on fear and terror at its core.\u201d The Trump administration\u2019s goal, he said, \u201cis simple and unitary: to rob undocumented immigrants of any real peace in their lives so that in misery they will \u2018self-deport.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the administration\u2019s assertion that all migrants who enter the country illegally should be removed, the cardinal argued that the Gospel \u201cproposes a far different measure\u201d that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/09\/migrants-are-not-enemies-just-brothers-and-sisters-in-need-pope-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">migrants are \u201cour neighbors.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cAn assault designed to produce fear,\u201d said the cardinal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Referencing the parable of <a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Good Samaritan<\/a>, Cardinal McElroy argued that \u201cthe most striking element\u201d of the story was \u201cthat the Samaritan was willing to reject the norms of society which said that because of his birth and status he had no obligation to the victim, who was a Jew.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe piercing insight and glory of the Samaritan was that he rejected the narrowness and myopia of the law to understand that the victim he was passing by was truly his neighbor and that both God and the moral law obligated him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/09\/the-cabrini-pledge-calls-faithful-to-be-keepers-of-hope-for-migrants-and-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">treat him as neighbor<\/a>,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The archbishop referenced the Catholic community in Washington, D.C., who he said has witnessed many migrants of faith who \u201chave been swept up and deported in the crackdown which has been unleashed in our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are witnessing a comprehensive governmental assault designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/08\/catholics-in-los-angeles-come-together-to-help-others-amid-deportation-fear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">produce fear and terror<\/a> among millions of men and women who have through their presence in our nation been nurturing precisely the religious, cultural, communitarian, and familial bonds that are most frayed and most valuable at this moment in our country\u2019s history,\u201d Cardinal McElroy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that Catholic social teaching categorizes border security and the deportation of criminals convicted of \u201cserious crimes\u201d as legitimate national goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he said, \u201cat times, our government asserts that these goals constitute the essence and scope of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2021\/10\/fixing-immigration-necessary-for-u-s-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">immigration enforcement efforts<\/a>, and if that were true Catholic teaching would raise no objection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, the cardinal called on Catholics to \u201cform our stance and action as people of faith,\u201d to \u201cstand in solidarity with the undocumented men and women whose lives are being upended by the government\u2019s campaign of fear and terror.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Featured image: Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy gives the homily at a Mass marking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icmc.net\/calendar\/111th-world-day-of-migrants-and-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees<\/a> on Sept. 28, 2025, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. 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