Cardinal Dolan rips into Bannon for 'insulting' remarks about Catholic Church and immigrants

By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 09/07/2017 05:48 PM EDT

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s assertion that Roman Catholic bishops “need illegal immigrants” is so “preposterous,” “insulting” and “ridiculous” that it doesn’t merit a response, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Thursday.

In an excerpt of a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast Thursday morning, Bannon told CBS’ Charlie Rose that the Catholic church and bishops “have been terrible about” undocumented immigrants. He suggested they were unable “to come to grips with the problems in the church” because they rely on undocumented immigrants to fill the churches and have an economic interest in “unlimited illegal immigration.”

Dolan told SiriusXM in a radio interview that he hadn’t heard Bannon’s comments but saw a transcript of his remarks.

“You might imagine I was rather befuddled to see it,” Dolan said. “I don’t really wanna care to go into what I think is a preposterous and rather insulting statement that the only reason we bishops care for immigrants is for the economic because we want to fill our churches and get more money. That’s insulting and that’s just so ridiculous that it doesn’t merit a comment.”

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