Joseph Capizzi, professor, moral theology and ethics, and executive director, Institute for Human Ecology, was quoted in a Catholic News Agency story about the Trump administration’s use of the Bible to justify its “zero-tolerance immigration policy,” which includes the separation of immigrant children from their parents.
... “The Attorney General cites a famous passage in the theological tradition,” said theology professor Dr. Joseph Capizzi, who teaches moral theology and ethics at The Catholic University of America.
In the New American Bible translation, Romans 13:1 reads, “Let every person be subordinate to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been established by God.”
“Essentially Paul is encouraging those who follow Christ to have a disposition of respect to those in political authority because, in essence, they are there by providence,” Capizzi told CNA. “It does not, by any means, license a blanket support for all laws that are made by those in political authority.” ...
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