Signs of xenophobia are raising the old ghost of “White Australia,” the shared belief in the nation as an outpost of white civilization in the middle of the Pacific.
The weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration have offered a mix of extremism and ineptitude that has vindicated the darkest suspicions about how he would govern.
Many American Catholics have ancestors who were the beneficiaries of the Immigration Bureau’s advocacy. Will they support the bishops who speak out today?