As we move into the holiday season with its familiar messages of peace and goodwill, it is worth pausing to hear a powerful warning from American faith leaders about the Trump administration’s government-sanctioned cruelty toward immigrants.

The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ recent “special statement” on immigrants is an important moral intervention in our time. Our history shows that when faith communities speak with moral clarity about social crises, it often precedes the moment when political leaders finally wake up.

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This has been true from the pulpits before the American Revolution to the abolitionists, the Social Gospel reformers, the civil-rights clergy and the anti-war pastors of the Vietnam era. In each case, the nation stood at a turning point.

The bishops’ message t

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