The editorial was published as Religious Freedom Week, observed annually by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, drew to a close.

“Thoughtful people can and do criticize our flawed border policies. I sure do. But we people of faith—Jews, Christians, Muslims, and others—also realize that we have a moral duty to welcome, clothe, feed, and respect newcomers, no matter how they got here. And here in the United States, the government can’t punish us for that belief,” Cardinal Dolan wrote.

Cardinal Dolan noted that threats to religious freedom can, and do, come from any political side.

“The Catholic Church is not a faction of the Republican Party, and Democrats are not the only ones who sometimes view the defense of religious freedom as a pothole instead of a stop sign,” he wrote.

Read the full article at America Magazine.