text: While debt relief is a worthy goal, Catholic Social Teaching demands a living wage sensitive to family size and a more cooperative ownership structure (workers owning debt rather than owing it).  For that, something more socialistic is required.
  
  Some of what we do to oppose deportations causes them.  When ICE can pick up aliens who are convicted of crimes from jail, they just get the arrestee.  If they pick them up at home, they get the family.  Not an improvement. If deportees were allowed to pick their next nation of exile, no one would have to go back to Salvador.
  
  At Vatican II, some bit of American tolerance was accepted, especially on religious freedom, but it hardly americanized the Curia nor does it understand the right to privacy and how it is not just keeping things private. It means taking things out of majority rule that should not be left to it.  The ultimate Americanism would be electing bishops again.