Pope Leo's top cardinal in the United States enrages MAGA by calling for ICE to be defunded because it's a "lawless organization" engaged in the "machinery of death."

The Catholic Church has become one of Trump's most formidable enemies...

"Will you ask them, for the love of God and the love of human beings, to vote against renewing funding for such a lawless organization?" Cardinal Joseph Tobin asked of the congregants at an interfaith prayer vigil. Tobin is the Archbishop of Newark and a prelate of the Church.

Not content to simply engage in rhetoric, the cardinal urged Catholics to contact their lawmakers and demand that they oppose any new funding for the paramilitary group.

"How will you say 'no?' How will you say 'no' to violence?" he asked. "How will you say 'no' this week when an appropriations bill is going to be considered in Congress? Will you contact your congressional representatives, the senators and representatives from your district? Will you ask them, for the love of God and the love of human beings, which can't be separated, to vote against renewing funding for such a lawless organization?"

According to Christopher Hale of the "Letters from Leo" substack, Tobin's comments "mark the first time an American cardinal has so directly urged defunding a federal agency." Pope Leo XIV has been outspoken in his criticisms of the Trump's regimes brutal treatment of migrants and has urged the American Catholic Church to speak out more forcefully.

Unlike the far-right Evangelicals who constitute Trump's MAGA base and who bray for more violence and state-sponsored bigotry even as they profess their own self-righteousness, Cardinal Tobin espoused the true message of Jesus Christ.

He drew upon the parable of the Good Samaritan, which urges Christians to show mercy and compassion for their neighbors regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or religion.

Tobin stated that "one way that we say ‘no’" to ICE's brutality is to focus on their victims.

"One way that we say 'no' is that we mourn, we do not celebrate death, and, what is probably worse, we do not pretend it doesn't happen. We say names. We pray for the dead," the cardinal said. "We mourn for a world, a country, that allows 5-year-olds to be legally kidnapped and protesters to be slaughtered."

"How will you scrawl your answer on the wall?" Tobin asked, referring to a novel called "Bread and Wine" in which a character asks a priest how best to resist fascism. He tells her that fascists fear the person who is brave enough to write "No" on the wall in a public square.

"How will you help restore a culture of life in the midst of death?" Tobin concluded.

Please like and share!