For Leo XIV, Bernhardin’s “seamless garment” seems like a scrap: everything fits into the same moral sack. Killing babies in the womb and demanding a legal migration model—the same one applied by the United States and the Vatican State itself—seem, to the Pope, equivalent in gravity. The moral compass stops pointing to the essential and begins to spin in circles, confusing the faithful and reducing the defense of life to a footnote.
This explains why Cardinal Cupich awards Dick Durbin, a convinced pro-abortion politician, for his “great sensitivity” toward illegal immigrants, and why Leo XIV applauds the move.
In this new moral hierarchy, the defense of borders and proper visas becomes a deadly sin, while mass abortion dilutes into a tolerable nuance within the garment. The disorder of priorities is presented as pastoral coherence, and contradiction is disguised as social gospel.
The effect is devastating: those who open the door to illegality are erected as heroes, while at the same time honoring those who close the door to the most defenseless of all, the unborn. This is not a simple error of focus, but a complete inversion of values: the Church that should illuminate consciences ends up confusing the criteria, relativizing the absolute and absolutizing the relative.
They want to present it as pastoral coherence. It would be more honest to call it historical irony. Because, under this logic, the seamless garment no longer appears as a sign of unity and clarity, but as a mosaic of torn scraps where any political cause finds refuge at the cost of silencing the cry of the innocents.