Most people – and most Catholics – think the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is just about when all the Catholic bishops in the United States get together and make various announcements.
But US Vice President JD Vance’s biting words on the USCCB’s immigration work showed this was not the case, with his pronouncements serving as a so-called “dog whistle” to what you could call the “professional” Catholic class in the country., while also making a nod toward the divisions that exist in the US Church.
