Tim Bonnett

BREAKING: Pope Leo's hometown cardinal shreds the Trump administration for lying about the murder of Alex Pretti, says that their smear campaign "flies in the face of what our eyes told us." The Catholic Church is waging all-out holy war against MAGA... "You have long been an advocate for immigrants' rights. What is your reaction to what we have seen from federal agents and the Department of Homeland Security in just the last few days alone?" Stephanie Ruhle asked Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago during his appearance on MS NOW. "It's clear that we need to return to the understanding of what human dignity is about. People have to be treated in humane way," said Cupich. "Name-calling, referring to people as vermin or animals, garbage, really puts us in a very difficult position in this country because it's based on an understanding that each and every human being had dignity." Cupich appeared to be referring directly to Trump's horrific rhetoric. The president has called Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Somali immigrant and Muslim woman, "garbage" and attacked "radical left thugs that live like vermin." "And so we're going down a path in many ways is a far distance from who we should be and claim to be as a nation in the world," Cupich added. Ruhle than asked the cardinal what it "does to a nation" when "people in positions of authority" including the president use such "dehumanizing" rhetoric. "Well I can tell you what it has done in the past..." said Cupich. "You know today we mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and it's important to recall the terrible tragedy that happened to the many people who were killed simply because of their faith and their traditions." "The Holocaust didn’t begin when they opened concentration camps. It began with words,” he continued. "And I think that we have to keep that in mind and learn from history that words do matter. And so it is important to call people out." "The Holy Father Pope Leo said something really very instructive for us in these days. He said that the real crisis we're facing is one of relativism, where we reduce the truth to an opinion, or alternative facts," said the cardinal, referencing to Kellyanne Conway's infamous MAGA slogan from the first Trump presidency. "And I think that we need to lean into that insight as well because we saw actually what happened and yet there's a narrative out there that's trying to be marketed to the American people that flies in the face of what our eyes told us," he added. While he didn't mention Pretti by name, it's clear that he was referring to the avalanche of lies that Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem unleashed in the days after his murder. They labeled him a "domestic terrorist" and falsely accused him of plotting to "massacre" law enforcement officers. This is what every true Christian needs to be doing right now: calling out the lies, demanding compassion, and fighting back against this fascist hate campaign from the White House . Please ❤️ and share to thank Cardinal Cupich for speaking out!