Washington D.C., Aug 1, 2019 / 09:00 am
The Archbishop of Washington condemned racist and divisive rhetoric Thursday in response to controversial tweets by President Donald Trump about his critics in Congress.
"We must all take responsibility to reject language that ridicules, condemns, or vilifies another person because of their race, religion, gender, age, culture or ethnic background," said Archbishop Wilton Gregory in an interview with the Catholic Standard, the archdiocesan newspaper, published August 1.
"Such discourse has no place on the lips of those who confess Christ or who claim to be civilized members of society," he wrote.
President Donald Trump tweeted on July 14 that "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" who criticized him "originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all)," and that the congresswomen should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."