Our bishops continue to offer stones to the faithful who are simply asking for bread.
Published in Crisis Magazine on December 23, 2025
One by one, as though on a conga line for the Democratic National Committee, our bishops last November recited a scripted Instagram paean to illegal immigration. Moreover, at the end of their recent November meeting, it was reported that they also, by overwhelming majority, huffed and puffed: “We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of peoples.”
For greater effect, they should have hired a better costume director. Except for one or two, they looked like unmade beds. Of course, this is part of the episcopal Spirit-of-Vatican-II look: casual, unkempt, pedestrian. All of which contributes to their “we have nothing important to say” message, joined to “we are simply here to listen to you.” The unspoken caveat: “you are listened to if you are the right you.”
Seems as though our good bishops have perfected the art of irrelevance.