A Vatican officer has closed Donald Trump for 'breaking obligations' with his cutbacks to USAID and warned that people are 'terrorized' in the midst of his hard performance against migrants.
Pope Francis's adviser on migration and development, cardinal Michael Czerny, has encouraged the president to remember his Christian values.
“A performance is a terrible way to manage things and much less to administer justice,” said Czerny, whose own family emigrated from the Czech Republic to Canada as refugees after the Second World War.
'And I am very sorry that many people are injured and are indeed terrorized by the measures.
“The only thing we can hope for is that people, God's people and the people of Goodwill, will help and who will help and protect vulnerable people who are suddenly made much more vulnerable.”
Czerny Heads The Charitas International Charity and Development of the Church, which is one of the organizations affected by Trump's decision to tidy the expenditure on foreign aid.
Paus Francis's adviser on migration and development, Cardinal Michael Czerny has urged the president to remember Christian values ​​in the midst of action against migrants and USAID financing freezing
“There are programs underway and expectations and we can even say commitments, and the breaking of obligations is serious,” Czerny said Sunday.
'So although every government is qualified to revise its budget in the case of foreign help, it would be good to have some warning, because it takes time to find other sources of financing or to find other ways to the problems we have to reach. '
USAID is the most important international humanitarian and low in development of the US government and in 2023 managed more than $ 40 billion in combined loans.
The Trump government and billionaire ally Elon Musk have so far focused the hardest in their challenge from the federal government.
A major financing freezer has closed most USAID programs worldwide, although a federal court has stopped plans on Friday to attract thousands of employees from the Bureau of Work.
One of the largest non-governmental recipients of Financing is Catholic emergency services, the auxiliary agency of the Catholic Church in the US who has already sounded an alarm about the cuts.
Other programs, including Caritas International programs at Diocesan and National level, are also directly or indirectly influenced, Czerny said.
Czerny hit Donald Trump for 'breaking obligations' with his cuts on USAID
Pope Francis has made a priority of his pontificate for migrants
“I think people are still faltering the news and start finding out how to respond,” he added.
Trump claimed that he focused on 'awake' programs by the USAID cuts, which Czerny acknowledged that he had been a bottleneck for the Pope who often complained about Western aid to poor countries that were saddled with circumstances that can be incompatible with the Catholic Doctrine.
“If the government thinks that its programs have been distorted by ideology, they must reform the programs,” Czerny said. “Many people would say that closing is not the best way to reform them.”
He also brought concern about the mass deportation plans of the president, who have arrested more than 8,000 people since the inauguration by Ice, said Minister Van Witte Huis, Karoline Leavitt, last week.
Some are held in federal prisons, while others are held on the Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The American conference of Catholic bishops made an unusually critical statement after the first executive orders of President Donald Trump, and said that those were concentrated on the treatment of immigrants and refugees, foreign aid, expansion of the death penalty and the environment, are deeply disturbing And will have negative consequences, many of which harm the most vulnerable among us. '
Since the inauguration, more than 8,000 people have been arrested by Ice, said Minister of Witte Huis Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt last week
The answer is surprisingly considering the Catholic hierarchy one of the cheers was when the Supreme Court of 2022 in 2022 put an end to the constitutional protection for abortion.
Trump won 54 percent of Catholic voters in the 2024 elections, a broader margin than the 50% he won against Catholic voters in the 2020 elections, won by President Joe Biden, a Catholic.
Inspired by the Biblical call for 'Welcome the Stranger', Pope Francis has taken care of migrants a priority of his pontificate and demand that countries that welcome, protect and integrate emerging conflicts, poverty and climate disasters.
The pope has also said that governments will do this to the limits of their capacity.
“And I don't think that's a country, except perhaps Lebanon, and maybe one or two other exceptions that are really the limit,” Czerny said.
“So I think it is first of us if people, as citizens, as believers and in our case, as Christians.”
