Tue Dec 16, 2025 - 12:51 pm ESTTue Dec 16, 2025 - 12:54 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — Last week, a revealing poll from EWTN News and RealClear Opinion Research highlighted a profound disconnect emerging within American Catholicism that suggests a growing fissure between the U.S. bishops’ conference and the most devout Catholics who attend Mass on a weekly basis. Surveying 1,000 self-identified Catholic voters from November 9-11, the results showed that 54 percent of them supported “the detention and deportation of unauthorized immigrants on a broad scale,” with only 30 percent opposed and 17 percent undecided. Support for Trump’s policies was even stronger among Catholics who actually practice the faith and attend Mass weekly. Those Catholics support deportations 58 percent to 23 percent. White Catholics favored the policies by a 60-26 margin while Latino Catholics were split 41-39. The findings come nearly a year into President Trump’s second term, where his administration has aggressively …
The Catholic Church once stood for law and order, and the faithful are just following what they were taught. Each nation has a right and a duty to enforce immigration laws.