Bishop Seitz:
Well, Pope Francis specifically raises these issues in his letter. So l'd refer you to that.
He says that if we are to really understand the Ordo amoris, we need to go back to the parable of the Good Samaritan. So as Jesus so often did, he turns upside down the familiar kind of wisdom that people seem to operate under.
He's certainly not saying we shouldn't love our family in a special way, but Christian love is outgoing. It is it is not what one might expect. It says radical, crazy things like love your enemy, and not only love one another, you know as they love you, you know, but rather Love one another as I have loved you.
And so there's so many examples in the Scripture where I think if I were to put words
- I don't want to put words in Jesus mouth
- but, but, but, I think he, you know, when, when people come up to him and say, your family and and your and your brothers and sisters are out there looking for you, Jesus
says, Who are my mother and my brothers?
You know? He turns it upside down and he says, you know, the only way that humanity is going to is going to get over these divisions and this hatred and so on is if they
recognize that that person who is vulnerable, that person whom you have trouble loving, that's the one you're called to love, the rest will take care of itself.
NEW: Speaking on a panel at Georgetown tonight, Bishop Mark Seitz of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, who chairs the USCCB's Committee on Migration, was asked about Vice President JD Vance’s argument invoking ordo amoris to justify Trump’s immigration policies.
Seitz offered an impassioned rebuke:
