At Heart of Refugee-Resettlement Debate, a Rift Between Church and State
By contrast, in Indiana, Gov. Mike Pence asked the Catholic Archdiocese in Indianapolis to turn down a family of Syrian refugees expecting to settle in that state later this month. At a meeting Wednesday with Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin, Pence expressed security concerns over the resettlement.
“They had a frank exchange of views,” Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski tells NPR’s Lynn Neary. Wenski serves on the migration committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Wenski explains: “I think the governor was saying, ‘Don’t take these people,’ and the archbishop was saying, ‘Think it over, governor, and don’t stand in the way of a humanitarian and Christian and American solution to the plight of this family.’ “
Wenski believes that the Indianapolis archdiocese will proceed with its plans to bring the Syrian family into the state.
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