Bishop John Stowe of the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky criticized Catholic students for wearing "Make America Great Again" hats to the March for Life.
His comments came in a column posted by the Lexington Herald Leader on Wednesday.
“A perennial complaint from participants in the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., is that the secular news media largely ignore this massive protest of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision,” he said. “In light of the viral news story of last weekend, of a group of Catholic high school students from Kentucky in a confrontation with a Native American elder after this year’s march, that claim no longer holds.
“Without engaging the discussion about the context of the viral video or placing the blame entirely on these adolescents, it astonishes me that any students participating in a pro-life activity on behalf of their school and their Catholic faith could be wearing apparel sporting the slogans of a president who denigrates the lives of immigrants, refugees and people from countries that he describes with indecent words and haphazardly endangers with life-threatening policies.”
And he added: “We cannot uncritically ally ourselves with someone with whom we share the policy goal of ending abortion.”
He noted the pro-life movement hopes to make abortion illegal and unthinkable.
But he said: “The association of our young people with racists acts and politics of hate must also become unthinkable”
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