Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s elected authority and issued a statement harshly critical of the Trump administration.
And this in the wake of a very significant win that is fair to credit to Archbishop Coakley’s engagement with the administration: the new regulation that allows religious workers (priests) to remain in the country without having to return home for a minimum of a year, thereby permanently removing many priests from service in the United States.
The hubris of Cardinals Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin cannot be overstated—first with respect to process and second with respect to substance.
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