Who Are You? What Is Your Name? is a work of controlled fury. It opens with an account of the chaos triggered by President Trump’s executive order restricting travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Then, rewinding all the way to the Declaration of Independence, Bartolo-Abela assiduously catalogues shameful injustices committed by the white ruling classes of America.
This is bleak stuff written in a clear, icy, factual style. America remains, at its core, a racist state, the author believes. In stark contrast is the compendium of papal pronouncements on the treatment of migrants and refugees, which serves the book’s overall purpose of examining the alt-right through the lens of Catholic social doctrine. The three most recent popes movingly proclaim and defend the universal brotherhood of man, leaving Catholics in little doubt about their own duties or the Church’s position.
