How VP Vance Uses Catholicism To Justify Mass Deportations

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

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More than two dozen Christian and Jewish organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its decision to let immigration agents make arrests at places of worship. Also Tuesday, Pope Francis issued a stinging rebuke of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan in a letter to U.S. Catholic Bishops. And he had some seemingly pointed words for Vice President J.D. Vance, who in recent weeks has used his Catholic faith to justify the White House’s immigration crackdown. Terence Sweeney, an assistant teaching professor at Villanova University, breaks down the holes in the Trump administration’s interpretation of Christianity and Catholicism. Later in the show, Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics and trade policy at the Cato Institute, explains why Trump’s threats to a trade loophole could blow up your online shopping habits. And in headlines: Trump and Elon Musk defended the Department of Government Efficiency’s draconian cost-cutting actions during a joint press conference, DOGE said it cut $900 million in Department of Education contracts, and a federal judge blocked the administration’s order to cut billions in funding for medical research.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, February 12th.
0:04.1	I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show that keeps checking the news to find things that don't make it feel sad or scared, and keeps finding news like The Coast Guard released audio of the Titan submarine imploding.
0:16.0	Not helping Coast Guard, not helping.
0:33.2	On today's show, Elon Musk's doge moves in on the education department, and President Donald Trump says Ukraine should, like, give us some stuff if they want our help fighting Russia.
0:38.7	But let's start with a growing resistance to the Trump administration from an unexpected corner,
0:43.5	faith groups. On Tuesday, more than two dozen Christian and Jewish organizations sued over the
0:48.7	administration's decision to let immigration agents make arrests at places of worship.
0:53.4	It's actually the second lawsuit like this,
0:55.5	a group of Quakers sued over the same issue last month.
0:58.9	Historically, places like schools and churches
1:00.9	had been off limits for immigration rates,
1:03.5	but not in Trump's vision of maximum cruelty
1:05.8	when it comes to immigration.
1:07.6	Also on Tuesday, Pope Francis issued a stinging rebuke
1:10.6	of the administration's mass deportation
1:12.6	plans. In a letter to U.S. Catholic bishops, Francis wrote, quote,
1:16.5	What is built on the basis of force and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human
1:20.9	being begins badly and will end badly. Ominous. Naturally, any kind of criticism, even from the head of the Catholic Church himself,
1:29.3	didn't sit well with the administration. Speaking to reporters outside the White House,
1:33.5	Trump's border czar, Tom Holman, essentially told the Pope to mind his own business.
1:37.8	I got how it's worth for the Pope. Pope want to fix the Catholic Church. I'm saying this is a lifelong
1:42.5	Catholic. I'll baptize Catholic. First Communion is a Catholic, confirmation of Catholic. He ought to fix the Catholic Church. I'm saying this is a lifelong Catholic. I was baptized Catholic. First Communion
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