In 2025, perhaps no public policy question has generated more commentary and protest than immigration and deportation. The matter is not confined to the U.S., of course, with analogous controversies across Europe. But through recent statements by both the American bishops and Pope Leo XIV, the sharper focus has recently been on the United States.
These statements by the Catholic magisterium are appropriate applications of Catholic social doctrine. The Church is perhaps the only entity in the world with the adequate moral vocabulary and communications infrastructure to address the immigration policy in a just and equitable way.
That vocabulary has resonance in the Gospel infancy narratives, making the Advent and Christmas seasons a perfect time to consider immigration policy from the perspective of Church teaching.
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