Biden and Catholicism, by Massimo Faggioli: on Immigration


Donald Trump: Opposes Vatican view of multicultural global resettlement

An element of tension between Francis's world view and that of the United States (and that of an influential part of Christianity in America) is the theological and social understanding of the epochal crisis of our time: migrants and refugees. On this issue there is little difference, and indeed a visible convergence, between the visions of the U.S. Bishops and Francis, except for implications of the implicit support of some Bishops for Donald Trump. But there are deeply rooted cultural differences. For Francis, the church and the world are in a process of global resettlement. If the American establishment sees a world of settlers and a nation colonized by Christians, Francis looks and sees a world of re-settlers.

Francis's embrace of migrants and refugees has consequences for the meaning of religious freedom in a multicultural and multireligious world. From this point of view, between Francis's Vatican and Biden's White House there is a greater convergence than in the recent past.

Source: Biden and Catholicism, by Massimo Faggioli, p. 74-75 Jan 20, 2021

Pope Francis: Both Church and world in process of global resettlement

On the epochal crisis of our time--migrants and refugees--there is a visible convergence, between the visions of the U.S. Bishops and Francis, except for implications of the implicit support of some Bishops for Donald Trump['s anti-immigrant policies]. But there are deeply rooted cultural differences. For Francis, as a Latin American Jesuit, the church and the world are in a process of global resettlement. If the American establishment sees a world of settlers and a nation colonized by Christians, Francis looks and sees a world of re-settlers. In Francis's moral imagination, the language of "dialogue" is far more useful than that of identity. Francis's embrace of migrants and refugees also means the acceptance of some other types of "migrations" (cultural, theological, and moral) in the church and in the public square, with important consequences for the framing of other theological forms and "public" issues, like the meaning of religious freedom in a multicultural and multireligious world.
Source: Biden and Catholicism, by Massimo Faggioli, p. 74-75 Jan 20, 2021

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